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o, actual or figurative. The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.

r when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. -- ~= signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.

ge for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips.

By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come ~; begone; take ~. And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down. Exod. xix. 24.

e curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the minor axis, and the two axes of the hyperbola are the transverse axis and the conjugate axis. -- Axis of a…

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…

land left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. Fuller.

To clip; to mow. [Obs.] Marston.

A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity. "Thou fell barbarian." Philips.

A European bat (Barbastellus communis), with hairy lips.

A slender tactile organ on the lips of certain fished.

of cutting weapon with a thick back and thin razorlike edge, used by the Moros of the Philippine Islands.

A resin, called also galipot.

The East Indian weaver bird (Ploceus Philippinus).

Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips.

A toe clip. See Clip, n. (Far.).

An open-mouthed, thin glass vessel, having a projecting lip for pouring; -- used for holding solutions requiring heat. Knight.

The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.

m or quiet; to calm; to still; to appease. Soft whispering airs . . . becalm the mind. Philips.