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t. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as f…

A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

ad of a government, for conference or the transaction of business. According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak. Shak.

A hearer or listener. Macaulay.

rity. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle with a body so august. Byron.

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

predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

Severely; rigidly; sternly. A doctrine austerely logical. Macaulay.

reproducer for a phonograph, controlled by the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

An ave Maria. He repeated Aves and Credos. Macaulay.

lton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

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.

version of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Macaulay.

ve thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. Buckle.

id Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away. [Colloq.]

erious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power. C. J. Smith. To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence pro…

Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. A long and awkward process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.