English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Auditorship
(n.)
The office or function of auditor.
Auditory
(n.)
An auditorium.
Auditory
(n.)
An assembly of hearers; an audience.
Auditory
(a.)
Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of
hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.
Auditress
(n.)
A female hearer.
Auditual
(a.)
Auditory.
Auf
(n.)
A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a
deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
Augean
(a.)
Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
Augean
(a.)
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.
Auger
(n.)
An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for
determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata
upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.
Auger
(n.)
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.
Auget
(n.)
A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the
gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
Aught
(n.)
Anything; any part.
Aught
(n.)
Alt. of Aucht
Aught
(adv.)
At all; in any degree.
Augite
(n.)
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.
Augitic
(a.)
Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a
principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.
Augment
(v. t.)
To add an augment to.
Augment
(n.)
Enlargement by addition; increase.
Augment
(n.)
A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel,
to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.