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.

Quality of being aut/cious.

sexually self-satisfying, as by masturbation.

using you own body as a sexual object.

Self-impregnation.

self induced fluorescence.

Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

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

Self-produced; autogenous.

Spontaneous generation.

Relating to autogenesis; self-generated.

self-generated; self-produced.

training patients in self-induced relaxation.

Self-generated; produced independently.

In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.

same as autogyro.

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

Autographic.

Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph.

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

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

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

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

Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.

Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause.

Self-moving; moving automatically.

Self-worship.

lysis of cells or tissues due to enzymatic activity from within the cell, as contrasted with externally induced lysis.

of, pertaining to, or causing autolysis.

a vending machine from which you can get food.

make automatic; to change [a process] so that it is mostly automatic; to substitute machinery for human labor in an activity.

accomplished by machinary without the intervention of a human operator; -- of processes.

One who is self-taught.

light machine gun.

In an automatic manner.

The state or quality of being automatic; the power of self-moving; automatic, mechanical, or involuntary action. A theory as to the activity of matter.

same as automate.

Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action.

Automatic.

a self-propelled vehicle used for transporting passengers, suitable for use on a street or roadway. Many diferent models of automobiles have beenbuilt and sold commercially, possessing varied features such as a retractable roof (in a convertible), different braking systems, different propulsion systems, and varied styling. Most models have four wheels but some have been built with three wheels. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), and sometimes by steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from under 50 H. P. for earlier models to over 200 H. P. larger models or high-performance sports or racing cars. An automobile is commonly called a car or an auto, and generally in British usage, motor cars.

to travel in an automobile.

The use of automobiles, or the practices, methods, or the like, of those who use them.

Patterned after one's self.

Automorphic characterization.

of or pertaining to the automobile.

The use of a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, /He has gone to town,/ for, /He has gone to London./

Having the power of self-government; autonomous.

Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

One who advocates autonomy.

Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical.

An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.

a device that automatically keeps ships or planes or spacecraft on a steady course.

Of or pertaining to autoplasty.

The process of artificially repairing lesions by taking a piece of healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

Acting or moving automatically by means of compressed air.

Pertaining to autopsy; autoptical.

That which is given under the doctrine of administering a patient's own virus.

Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view.

Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

By means of ocular view, or one's own observation.

an image produced upon photographic film by exposure of the film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to (usually in contact with) the film.

same as autoradiogram.

the process of producing an autoradiogram by exposing photographic film to a radioactive substance in close proximity to the film.

Extemporary; offhand.

Automatic stability; also, inherent stability. An a/roplane is inherently stable if it keeps in steady poise by virtue of its shape and proportions alone; it is automatically stable if it keeps in steady poise by means of self-operative mechanism.

an expressway in an Italian-speaking country.

Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.

Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, especially in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

of or pertaining to autotelism.

belief that a work of art is an end in itself or its own justification.

The doctrine of God's self-existence.

One given to self-worship.

of or pertaining to autotomy.

cause a body part to undergo autotomy.

spontaneous removal or casting off of a body part (as the tail of a lizard or claw or a lobster) especially when the organism is injured or under attack.

Self-intoxication. See Auto-intoxication.

Pertaining to, or causing, autotox/mia.

Same as Auto-intoxication.

A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.

an organism which is autotrophic, i. e., an organism (such as most plants and certain microorganisms) which are capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances, requiring only minerals as nutrients for growth, and using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; the energy required is derived from photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Opposed to heterotroph. See also auxotroph.

Capable of self-nourishment; requiring only minerals for growth; using carbonate or carbon dioxide as a source of carbon and simple inorganic nitrogen as a nitrogen source; -- said of all plants in which photosynthetic activity takes place, and certain bacteria. It is opposed to parasitism or saprophytism.

The tendency of plant organs to grow in a straight line when uninfluenced by external stimuli.

A facsimile.

A process resembling /nature printing,/ by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

The art or process of making autotypes.

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called /the fall./ Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.

A lemon-yellow phosphate of uranium and calcium occurring in tabular crystals with basal cleavage, and in micalike scales. H., 2-2.5. Sp. gr., 3.05-3.19.

a region in central France.

An instrument to measure the growth of plants.