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formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

An audience; a hearing. [Obs.] He appeals to a high audit. Milton.

One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.

The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

An assembly of hearers; an audience.

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

. So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle. These living automata, human bodies. Boyle.

Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy. "Avid of gold, yet greedier of renown." Southey.

employment; vocation. There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them c…

an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.

ay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

tached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson.

An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

Of or pertaining to bacteriology; as, bacteriological studies.

A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.

A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.