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An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.

A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.

The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait. Walpole.

y. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

Evidence; declaration. [Obs.] The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. Shak.

To determine; to make an ~.

A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made in the form of two rectangular trays hinged together, each tray containing two "tables".

hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

A person who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

An annual garden plant (Impatiens balsamina) with beautiful flowers; balsamine.

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

Native sulphate of barium, a mineral occurring in transparent, colorless, white to yellow crystals (generally tabular), also in granular form, and in compact massive forms resembling marble. It has a high specific gravity, and hence is often called heavy spar. It is a common mineral in metallic veins.…

Formerly, a local judge among miners; now, an officer of the barmote. [Eng.]

A court held in Derbyshire, in England, for deciding controversies between miners. Blount.

ions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.