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Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

Self-fertilization, the fertilizing pollen being derived from the same blossom as the pistil acted upon.

Self-produced; autogenous.

Spontaneous generation.

Relating to autogenesis; self-generated.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.

In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.

Autographic. [Obs.]

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.

A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.

Pert. to autohypnotism; self-hypnotizing. -- n.

Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.

Spontaneous or voluntary movement; movement due to an internal cause.

Self-moving; moving automatically.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

Self-worship. Farrar.