Arcot (Ar`cot) , the name of two districts, N. and S., in the Presidency of Madras; also chief town (11) in the district, 65 m. SW. of Madras; captured by Clive in 1787; once the capital of the Carnatic.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Arcis`-sur-Aube * Arctic Ocean