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Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean. Austral signs (Astron.), the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator.

A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

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

Southern; southerly; austral. [Obs.] Bailey.

Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.

ternal impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

n. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. -- ~= signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, throug…

r the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new s…

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy. "Avid of gold, yet greedier of renown." Southey.

away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

From a place; hence. The sound is going away. Shak. Have me away, for I am sore wounded. 2 Chron. xxxv. 23.

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

The Neapolitan medlar (Cratægus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit.

A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

, §§ 196,220.) It is etymologically related to p , v , f , w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr…

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

A support or resource in reserve. This project Should have a back or second, that might hold, If this should blast in proof. Shak.