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A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

An instrument for observing or showing the positions of the stars. It is now disused.

An instrument for comparing the relative amount of the light of stars.

An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

A kettledrum; a kind of tabor, used by the Moors. Croly.

A sauce (such as egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.

An instrument for measuring the evaporation from water, ice, or snow. Brande & C.

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.

One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

dge 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 follows: when the trump is sp…

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

Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. " Audacious traitor." Shak. " Such audacious neighborhood." Milton.

An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

ugustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet. Mansfield.

An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.