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Auspice

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.

Auspicial

Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious.

Auspicious

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

Aussie

a native or inhabitant of Australia.

austenite

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

Austereness

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.

Austerity

Sourness and harshness to the taste.

Austerlitz

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.

Austin

Augustinian; as, Austin friars.

Austral

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

Australasian

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

Australian

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

Australize

To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet.

Austrian

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

Austro-Hungarian

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

Austrocedrus

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

Austromancy

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

Austronesia

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

Austrotaxus

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

Auszug

See Army organization, Switzerland.

autacoid

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

Autarchy

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

autarky

economic independence as a national policy.

Authentically

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

Authenticate

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

authentication

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

Authenticity

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

Authentics

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

Author

To occasion; to originate.

authorise

grant authorization or clearance for. Same as authorize.

Authoritative

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

authorities

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

Authority

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.

Authorization

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

Authorize

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

Authorized

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

Authorless

Without an author; without authority; anonymous.

Authorship

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

Authotype

A type or block containing a facsimile of an autograph.

autism

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.

auto

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

auto-changer

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

auto-da-fe

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

Auto-infection

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

Auto-intoxication

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

autobahn

an expressway or superhighway in a German-speaking country.

Autobiography

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

Autocarpian Autocarpous

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

Autocatalysis

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.

Autocephalous

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

Autochronograph

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

Autochthon

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.

Autoclastic

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.

Autoclave

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

Autocoherer

A self-restoring coherer, as a microphonic detector.

autocoid

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

Autocracy

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

Autocrat

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).

Autocratical Autocratic

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

Autocratrix

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

Autodynamic

Supplying its own power, as a hydraulic ram.

Autoecious

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

autoerotic

sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.

Autogamous

Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

Autogamy

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

autogenics

training patients in self-induced relaxation.

Autograph

In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.

Autography

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

autogyro

an aircraft that is supported in flight by unpowered rotating horizontal wings (or blades); forward propulsion is provided by a conventional propeller.

Autoharp

A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.

Autohypnotic

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing. An autohypnotic person.

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