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An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time. Knight.

One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

The state of being autochthonal.

An aboriginal or autochthonous condition.

Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

A kind of French stewpan with a steamtight lid. Knight.

A self-restoring coherer, as a microphonic detector.

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

Of or pertaining to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

An autocrat. [Archaic]

Pertaining to an autocrator; absolute. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

A female sovereign who is independent and absolute; -- a title given to the empresses of Russia.

The office or dignity of an autocrat.

One who is self-taught; an automath.

Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

Quality of being autocious.

Self-impregnation. Darwin.