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Made thin or slender.

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.

To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] C. Middleton.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

Golden; gilded. Skelton.

one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes on each side of its petiole or base.

Embroidered or decorated with gold. [R.] Southey.

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke.

by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit. The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. Burke.

To avert; to ward off. [Obs.] Hudibras.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an aëroplane or heavier-than- air flying machine. [Colloq.]

off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic] One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

A baccalaureate sermon. [U.S.]

Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray.

Having many berries.

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.