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sm is a ferocious system, that leaves nothing above us to excite awe, nor around us to awaken tenderness. R. Hall. Atheism and pantheism are often wrongly confounded. Shipley.

A disease characterized by thickening and fatty degeneration of the inner coat of the arteries.

e weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard.

To cause to waste away or become abortive; to starve or weaken.

Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept.

To lessen the amount, force, or value of; to make less complex; to weaken. To undersell our rivals . . . has led the manufacturer to . . . attenuate his processes, in the allotment of tasks, to an extreme point. I. Taylor. We may reject and reject till we attenuate history into sapless meagerness. Sir F. Palgrave.…

The process of weakening in intensity; diminution of virulence; as, the attenuation of virus.

Rubbish or refuse consisting of broken rock containing little or no ore. Weale.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

or a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as follows: when the trump is spades, 2; clubs, 6; diamonds, 7; hearts, 8; royal spades (lilies), 9; and when the deal is played with no trump, 10.

art. [Also written ought.] There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45 But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison.

To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel.

Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.

The act of listening or hearkening to. Hickes.

To foreshow; to foretoken. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

n of a court, an official declaration, or an opinion, saying, or statement worthy to be taken as a precedent.

Broken in place; -- said of rocks having a broken or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

vail themselves of names. Milton. I have availed myself of the very first opportunity. Dickens.

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] Milton.