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The things sold by auction or put up to auction. Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys Pope.

A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as f…

A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. [R.] With auctionary hammer in thy hand. Dryden.

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

Birdcatching; fowling. [Obs.] Blount.

The act of hearing or listening; hearing. Audition may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing. Dunglison.

The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

The practice of augury.

The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [R.] De Quincey.

An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts 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 act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale.

Poisoning caused by a virus that originates and develops in the organism itself.

Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body.

Poisoning, or the state of being poisoned, from toxic substances produced within the body; autotoxæmia.

Self-impregnation. Darwin.

Self-suggestion as distinguished from suggestion coming from another, esp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

Same as Auto-intoxication.

Eradication. [R.] De Quincey.

A turning from with dislike; aversion. [Obs.or Archaic] Some men have a natural aversation to some vices or virtues, and a natural affection to others. Jer. Taylor.