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het. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle with a body so august. Byron.

Protection; patronage and care; guidance. Which by his auspice they will nobler make. Dryden.

Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. "Auspicious chief." Dryden.

orous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden.

ndividual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne par…

Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

Avowal. [Obs.] Dryden.

ors awarded damages to the complainant. To review The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden.

graceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy. And dropped an awkward courtesy. Dryden.

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. "Awless insolence." Dryden.

r to a worse state, as from honor to shame, from religion to sin. The work went backward. Dryden.

of Bid. Bade. [Obs.] Dryden.

urnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.

An overseer or under steward of an estate, who directs husbandry operations, collects rents, etc. [Eng.]

To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold.

titute of ornament; unadorned; bare; literal. In the preface to his own bald translation. Dryden.

Senseless jargon; ribaldry; nonsense; trash.

See Balladry. [Obs.] Milton.