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A treatise on, or text-book of, the science. Physical astronomy. See under Physical.

rom each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude.

Relation of direction toward an object or end; as, look at it; to point at one; to aim at a mark; to throw, strike, shoot, wink, mock, laugh at any one. At all, At home, At large, At last, At length, At once, etc. See under All, Home, Large, Last (phrase and syn.), Length, Once, etc. -- At it, busily or actively engag…

ing, or containing, atheism; -- applied to things; as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow.

pecially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely. Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him straight. Spenser.

To care for; to look after; to take charge of; to watch over.

Waiting for; expectation. [Obs.] Languishing attendance and expectation of death. Hooker.

eing attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.

A general receptacle or receiver. [Obs.] It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its b…

to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. "Portents augural." Cowper.

e in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden.

An original (book or document). [Obs.] "Authentics and transcripts." Fuller.

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.

A book containing such a statement or opinion, or the author of the book.

Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.

ts; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. Milton.

ct; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.

An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.

ediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. His books were received and read with avidity. Milward.

To look at; to view; to think of. [Obs.] Chaucer.