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d with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden.

attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton.

tually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. Fit audience find, though few. Milton. He drew his audience upward to the sky. Dryden. Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop…

ugment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage. From their flight strange auguries she drew. Drayton. He resigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.

burg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

um, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke.

Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction. The avails of their own industry. Stoddard.

To descend; to fall; to dismount. [Obs.] And from their sweaty courses did avale. Spenser.

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

A reverential salutation. Their loud applause and aves vehement. Shak.

oidable accident; and it is borne by the individual 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 we…

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

The object of dislike or repugnance. Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. Pope.

Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle.

torpor; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

ines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. -- Axes of coördinates in space, the three straight lines in which the coördinate planes intersect each other. -- Axis of a balance, that line about which it turns…