In an august manner.

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcid/. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca impennis (or Plautus impennis) . The razor-billed auk is Alca torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.

See Awkward.

At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian.

Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh.

A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century. Same as Burgher, n., 2.

Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.

The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

An ell. [Obs.] See Aune.

See Alnage and Alnager.

Same as Aam.

To figure or variegate.

Same as Ambry.

A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.

A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.

Ancestry.

A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter.

The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.

To venture; to dare.

Adventurous.

Adventure; hap.

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.

Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiace/, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Having ears. See Aurited.

Golden; gilded.

The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies. A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.

An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.

A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

a yellow crystalline antibiotic (generic name chlortetracycline) used to treat certain bacterial and rickettsial diseases.

Of or pertaining to gold.

Brass-colored.

A hydrous carbonate of copper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. It yields a kind of brass on reduction.

The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head. The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.

A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear. A species of Hirneola (Hirneola auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Jud/, or Jew's-ear.

Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.

A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

In an auricular manner.

A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.

Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc.

relating to or affecting the atria and ventricles of the heart.

Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold.

See Oriflamme.

Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.

to transform into gold.

The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

Of or pertaining to a chariot.

The act of driving a chariot or a carriage.

The art of writing with or in gold.

An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.

A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin.

Embroidered or decorated with gold.

See Orpiment.

An earpick.

An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.

Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope.

Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.

Gold-devouring.

Having a gold-colored head.

The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

The European bison (Bison bonasus, or Bison Europ/us), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of C/sar, with which it has often been confused.

A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.

of or pertaining to the dawn.

Containing gold.

Gold.

To auscultate.

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

The act of listening or hearkening to.

One who practices auscultation.

Of or pertaining to auscultation.

Italian.

To foreshow; to foretoken.

A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.

Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious.

Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.

a native or inhabitant of Australia.

a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; -- it cools to form pearlite or martensite.

of or pertaining to austenite.

The south wind.

Severely; rigidly; sternly.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.

Sourness and harshness to the taste.

a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian and Austrian armies of Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II.

Augustinian; as, Austin friars.

Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean.

Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions. A native or an inhabitant of Australasia.

Of or pertaining to Australia. A native or an inhabitant of Australia.

To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet.

of or pertaining to the genus Australopithecus.

Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. A native or an inhabitant of Austria.

Southern; southerly; austral.

Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria and Hungary.

a genus having but one species; formerly included in genus Libocedrus.

Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.

the area comprising the islands of central and S Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia).

of or pertaining to Austronesia.

a genus having but one species; the New Caledonian yew.

See Army organization, Switzerland.

any physiologically active internal secretion, especially one of uncertain classification.

of or pertaining to an autacoid.

of or pertaining to autocracy.

Self-sufficiency, especially economic self-sufficiency as applied to nations.

not relying on imports; -- of countries.

economic independence as a national policy.

An original (book or document).

Authentic.

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity.

To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.

established or certified as genuine.

a mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity.

The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.

Authentically.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity.