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.

of or pertaining to auxins.

A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

A pneumatic reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

An auxiliary.

By way of help.

A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

Auxiliary; helping.

a substance which, in small concentrations, promotes root formation, bud growth, or certain other processes such as fruit ripening or leaf drop in plants.

An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.

the eleventh month of the civil year; the fifth month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in July and August).

Same as Kava.

Same as Amadavat.

In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

See Avale, v.

The quality of being available; availableness.

Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.

Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.

Profit; advantage.

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.

The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van.

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

Of, pertaining to, or belonging to the avant-garde.

The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard.

an evergreen Indian shrub (Senna auriculata or Cassia auriculata) with vivid yellow flowers whose bark is used in tanning; it is sometimes placed in the genus Cassia.

An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness for wealth; covetousness; cupidity.

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

A reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins); avarice; greed.

Avaricious.

Cease; stop; stay.

The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

To advance; to profit.

A vaunt; to boast.

A boaster.

An ave Maria.

In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.

A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form.

An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.

Vengeance; revenge.

Vengeance.

Vengeful.

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.

One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.

A female avenger.

Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.

See Avener.

A plant of the genus Geum, of the rose family, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet. They may bear red, yellow, or white flowers.

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

A post of security or defense.

To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

Accident; chance; adventure.

A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.

To assert, or prove, the truth of.

To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.

The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.

Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

The tenets of the Averroists.

One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

To avert; to ward off.

The act of averting.

An instrument for pruning trees, having two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on a long rod and operated by a string or wire; a tree pruner.

A turning from with dislike; aversion.

To turn away.

Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.

The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

A turning away.

of or pertaining to aversion.

To turn away.

Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.

One who, or that which, averts.

Capable of being averted; preventable.

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The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.

The Zoroastrian scriptures; the sacred text of Zoroastrianism. See Zend-Avesta.

Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. The language of the Avesta (an ancient Iranian language); -- less properly called Zend.

One who works a mine with means provided by another.

Of or instrument to birds.

to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo.

A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.

fly an airplane.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an a/roplane or heavier-than-air flying machine.

The art or science of flying.

An experimenter in aviation.

A woman aviator (in senses 1 or 3).

a family name used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia.

A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.

Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.

See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.

Rearing and care of birds.