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To expiate; to atone for. [Archaic] Spenser. Let each act assoil a fault. E. Arnold.

e of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

Together. [Obs.] Spenser. He and Aufidius can no more atone Than violentest contrariety. Shak.

Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

Destitute of tone vocality; surd. Rush.

Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

ue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

Obs.] Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone.

is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone.

nt of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.

In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length. Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

See Algorism. [Obs.] Chaucer. Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration. -- Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. Chaucer.

Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an authoritative tone. The mock authoritative manner of the one, and the insipid mirth of the other. Swift. -- Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ly, adv -- Au*thor"i*ta*tive*ness, n.

A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure.

An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest. Dunglison.

y the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

al firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

f may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone.