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That which accompanies; a concomitant. [A] sense of fame, the attendant of noble spirits. Pope.

ower plants, consisting of two centrospheres containing centrosomes. It exercises an important function in mitosis.

Repentant from fear of punishment; having attrition of grief for sin; -- opposed to contrite.

um, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

man practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke.

A native or an inhabitant of Australasia.

A native or an inhabitant of Australia.

Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printing of time. Knight.

osed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant. Averse alike to flatter, or offend. Pope. Men who were averse to the life of camps. Macaulay. Pass by securely as men averse from war. Micah ii. 8.

Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. Darwin. The babble of the stream. Tennyson.

An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.

Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements.

for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

Unwilling; averse; reluctant; hesitating; loath. For wiser brutes were backward to be slaves. Pope.

Reluctantly; slowly; aversely. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

apers, and colloquially, and among the natives, to distinguished officials and other important personages.