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rise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

To make sure or safe; to assure. [Obs.] Hooker.

ted; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle.

To stun; to stupefy. No puissant stroke his senses once astound. Fairfax.

arry; starlike. Shines only with an astral luster. I. Taylor. Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in…

Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.] Languishing attendance and expectation of death. Hooker.

To call to witness; to invoke. [Archaic] The sacred streams which Heaven's imperial state Attests in oaths, and fears to violate. Dryden.

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

ing attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

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

part. [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.

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.

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.

t; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.

l to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke.

re morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25.

e eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.