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The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton.

Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls. Mrs. Browning.

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

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.

To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet. [Obs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.

Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.

Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. [Obs.]

t of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

To tease or annoy, as a badger when baited; to worry or irritate persistently.

The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

ssel for holding hot water in which another vessel may be heated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming or preparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.

To miss intentionally; to avoid; to shun; to refuse; to let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the Evelyn. Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton.

To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way. Fit to bandy with thy lawless sons. Shak.

The rank or patent of a baronet.

The contents of a basket; as much as a basket contains; as, a basket of peaches.

A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.

Strife; contention. [Obs.] Shak.

Exciting contention; contentious. [Obs.] "It did bateful question frame. " Sidney.

f apartments arranged for bathing. Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. Gwilt.

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex To be contents his natural desire. Pope. To be, or not to be: that is the question. Shak.