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lace of retreat and security. Earth has no other asylum for them than its own cold bosom. Southey.

The relations of source, occasion, reason, consequence, or effect; as, at the sight; at this news; merry at anything; at this declaration; at his command; to demand, require, receive, deserve, endure at your hands.

Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts. "Athletic soundness." South. -- Ath*let"ic*al*ly, adv.

The life principle, soul, or individual essence.

A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

ts or draws; an attraction; an allurement. Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation. South.

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.

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

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

One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

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.

a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

Embroidered or decorated with gold. [R.] Southey.

The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zen…

of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate ~), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.

The south wind. Pope.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] Horsley.