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bing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.

s Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.

A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash. Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush.

To take up; to elevate; to assume. [Obs.] Sheldon.

he genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers.

Observation of the stars. [Obs.]

Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies. Derham.

Any step wrongly innovated or attempted in a suit by an inferior judge.

der, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.

A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.

A member of the conservative party in the Church of Scotland in the latter part of the 18th century.

Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest. This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. Milton.

Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.

The action of the vital principle, or of the instinctive powers, toward the preservation of the individual; also, the vital principle. [In this sense, written also autocrasy.] Dunglison.

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.

By means of ocular view, or one's own observation. Sir T. Browne.

To advance; to move forward; to elevate. [Obs.] Spenser.

Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]

vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.