Capable of being attracted; subject to attraction.

One who, or that which, attracts.

Having power to attract.

That attracts.

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

That which attracts or draws; an attraction; an allurement.

The quality or degree of attractive power.

One who, or that which, attracts.

That which attracts, as a magnet.

To adorn with trapping; to array.

Frequent handling or touching.

Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.

That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

A word that denotes an attribute; esp. a modifying word joined to a noun; an adjective or adjective phrase.

In an attributive manner.

Rubbed; worn by friction.

The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion.

of or pertaining to attrition (definition 4).

Matter pulverized by attrition.

Poisonous; malignant; malicious.

In twain; asunder.

Between.

Twisted; distorted; awry.

To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid.

Betwixt.

In two; in twain; asunder.

That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.

An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.

An alb.

An inn.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

Flaxen-colored.

The part of the neck nearest the back.

Property; possession.

That which is superadded; augmentation.

To sell by auction.

Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer.

To sell by auction; to auction.

Birdcatching; fowling.

Daring; spirited; adventurous.

In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.

Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.

same as aoudad.

An English poet in the U. S. Born 1907, died 1973.

of or pertaining to W. H. Auden.

The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.

That which may be heard.

The quality of being audible.

So as to be heard.

The act of hearing; attention to sounds.

A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church.

One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

the part of a transmitted signal which conveys the sound of the event represented by the signal, such as that of a television program.

pertaining to a method of teaching language that focuses on listening and speaking.

a system of electronic equipment for recording or reproducing sound.

pertaining to or using audiovisual aids in teaching or exposition

a cassette for audio tape.

An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

the measurement of hearing.

magnetic tape for use in recording sound.

materials using sight or sound to present information; -- usually used in the plural.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

To settle or adjust an account.

The act of hearing or listening; hearing.

Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory.

A hearer or listener.

Auditory.

The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

The office or function of auditor.

An assembly of hearers; an audience.

A female hearer.

Auditory.

A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.

A philosophic movement of the 18th century characterized by a lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of politics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and the epistemological theories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the /Encyclopedia/ by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.

Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

a number to which another number (the addend) is added.

A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.

At all; in any degree.

A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.

Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.

Enlargement by addition; increase.

Capable of augmentation.

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive.

One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.

See Algorism.

To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.

Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.

The office of an augur.

The practice of augury.

An augur.

Relating to augurs or to augury.

An augur.

Full of augury; foreboding.

The office, or period of office, of an augur.

The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

Of or pertaining to Augustus C/sar or to his times.

One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.

A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians.

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.