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Assisting the sense of hearing; as, an otacoustic instrument.

An instrument to facilitate hearing, as an ear trumpet.

A polyacoustic instrument.

The art of multiplying or magnifying sounds.

A sulphide of arsenic and silver of a beautiful cochineal-red color, occurring in rhombohedral crystals, and also massive; ruby silver.

To rouse; to disturb; as, to roust one out. [Prov. Eng. & Local, U.S.]

A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs. [Western U.S.]

Impiety. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Removal; ousting; especially, the removal of a corporate officer from his office.

A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.

Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.

That branch of acoustics which treats of reflested sounds; catacoustics.

Diacoustic.

The doctrine of refracted sound; diacoustics.

n right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States.

rwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster.

To deprive of seizin or possession; to dispossess or oust wrongfully (one in freehold possession of land); -- followed by of; as, to disseize a tenant of his freehold. [Written also disseise.] Which savage beasts strive as eagerly to keep and hold those golden mines, as the Arimaspians to disseize them thereof. Holland…

The act of disseizing; an unlawful dispossessing and ouster of a person actually seized of the freehold. [Written also disseisin.] Blackstone.

a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust. The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession. Sir. J. Davies.

by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.