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Attracting or drawing by moral influence or pleasurable emotion; alluring; inviting; pleasing. "Attractive graces." Milton. "Attractive eyes." Thackeray. Flowers of a livid yellow, or fleshy color, are most attractive to flies. Lubbock. -- At*tract"ive*ly, adv. -- At*tract"ive*ness, n.

Attributing; pertaining to, expressing, or assigning an attribute; of the nature of an attribute.

Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.

llac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representative thinkers, while the political doctrines of the leaders of the American Revolution and the speculations of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine represented the movement in America.…

ble contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing. Dunglison.

Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv.

An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.

The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.…

An instrument for cleansing the ear, consisting of a small piece of sponge on an ivory or bone handle.

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

To tell; to say; to declare. [Obs.] More of him I dare not author. Massinger.

Government; the persons or the body exercising power or command; as, the local authorities of the States; the military authorities. [Chiefly in the plural.]

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

n a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about…

Pertaining to, or causing, autotoxæmia.

Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.

A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.