I.tilled or arable land, seed-land, cornland, Lat. arvum, and in pl. corn-lands, fields, Il.: then, generally, land, earth, id=Il.; πατρὶς ἄρουρα father land, Od.
2.metaph. of a woman as bearing children, Aesch., Soph.
II.a measure of land in Egypt, nearly = the Roman jugerum, Hdt.