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Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana. [Written also avocette.]

se; vindication. [Obs.] Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me Fuller.

Inspiring no awe. [Obs.] "The awless throne." Shak. [Written also aweless]

A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

A Hindoo gentleman; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

the work, to steady it in turning. -- Back slang, a kind of slang in which every word is written or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man. -- Back stairs, stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair, in the Vocabulary. -- Back step (Mil.), the…

A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.

A line of palisades serving as an exterior defense. [Written also bayle.] [Obs.]

isoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.

A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession. [Written also baldachino, baldaquin, etc.]

The most beautiful and beloved of the gods; the god of peace; the son of Odin and Freya. [Written also Baldur.]

A writer of ballads.

Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

A little banner, flag, or streamer. [Written also bannerol.] From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross. Sir W. Scott.

A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer. [Written also banyan.]

n horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [Written also barbel and barble.]