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To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. [Obs.]

the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites. Milner.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

ieving the existence of a God; impious; godless; -- applied to persons; as, an atheistic writer. -- A`the*is"tic*al*ly, adv. -- A`the*is"tic*al*ness, n.

Daring; spirited; adventurous. As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. Milton.

A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.

Having ears. See Aurited.

ntaining or producing gold. Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.

One who composes or writers a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

One who writers his own life or biography.

One who writes his own life; an autobiographer. [R.]

to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite. [R.]

A Hindoo gentleman; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

Stand 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.

To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.

A meteorite, or similar rude stone artificially shaped, held sacred or worshiped as of divine origin.

A writer of ballads.