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.

One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.

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.

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.

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authenticity.

To occasion; to originate.

A female author.

Of or pertaining to an author.

grant authorization or clearance for. Same as authorize.

Authorship.

behaves like a tyrant.

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding.

the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit.

Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court.

Capable of being authorized.

The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant.

To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.

One who authorizes.

Without an author; without authority; anonymous.

Authorial.

The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph.

a mental disorder characterized by inability to engage in normal social interactions and intense self-absorption, and usually accompanied by other symptoms such as language dysfunctions and repetitive behavior.

afflicted with autism.

of or pertaining to an automobile; as, an auto mechanic.

an automatic device on a record player that causes new records to be played without manual intervention.

A judgment of the Inquisition in Spain and Portugal condemning or acquitting persons accused of religious offenses.

Same as Auto-da-f/.

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body.

Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body; autotox/mia.

an expressway or superhighway in a German-speaking country.

One who writes his own life or biography.

Pertaining to, or containing, autobiography; as, an autobiographical sketch.

One who writes his own life; an autobiographer.

A biography written by the subject of it; memoirs of one's life written by one's self.

Consisting of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Self-catalysis; catalysis of a substance by one of its own products, as of silver oxide by the silver formed by reduction of a small portion of it.

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.

An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time.

One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

The state of being autochthonal.

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.

Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

A kind of French stewpan with a steam-tight lid.

A self-restoring coherer, as a microphonic detector.

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

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy.

An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government.

An autocrat.

Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute.

A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.

The office or dignity of an autocrat.

One who is self-taught; an automath.

Supplying its own power, as a hydraulic ram.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heter/cious.