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pecial knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

ns the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

A worshiper of the stars. Morley.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley.

us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

To render atheistic or godless. [R.] They endeavored to atheize one another. Berkeley.

nstrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.

string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

ke by force; as, to attempt the enemy's camp. Without attempting his adversary's life. Motley.

onging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. Mozley & W. -- In general (or open) audience, publicly. -- To give audience, to listen; to admit to an interview.

Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] Horsley.

Southern; southerly; austral. [Obs.] Bailey.

gal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale.

Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. Huxley. So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle. These living automata, human bodies. Boyle.

ses; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc. "The average of sensations." Paley.

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

xis, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. -- Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fiber; -- called also axis band, axial fiber, and cylinder axis. -- Axis in peritrochio, the wheel and axle, one of the mechanical powers. -…

f. A garden . . . with a vineyard backed. Shak. The chalk cliffs which back the beach. Huxley.

Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness. Shelley's thought never had any backbone. Shairp. To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely. "Staunch to the backbone." Lord Lytton.

See Bailey.