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Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body.

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

The science of autographs; a person's own handwriting; an autograph.

An autohypnotic person.

Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth.

Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

; as, how can the danger be averted "To avert his ire." Milton. When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson.

The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.

back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

A person who has taken the first or lowest degree in the liberal arts, or in some branch of science, at a college or university; as, a bachelor of arts.

haucer. Behind one's back, when one is absent; without one's knowledge; as, to ridicule a person behind his back. -- Full back, Half back, Quarter back (Football), players stationed behind those in the front line. -- To be or lie on one's back, to be helpless. -- To put, or get, one's back up, to assume an attitude…

To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each 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 i…

To trip (a person) in this way.