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Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.

Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid. [R.] Carpenter.

Bacchanalian.

Pertaining to projection, or to a projectile. Ballistic pendulum, an instrument consisting of a mass of wood or other material suspended as a pendulum, for measuring the force and velocity of projectiles by means of the arc through which their impact impels it.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

See Projector, below.

which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.

A small fish, the three-spined stickleback.

Of or for baptism; baptismal.

Baptistic. [R.]

Of or pertaining to baryta.

Pertaining to basalt; formed of, or containing, basalt; as basaltic lava.

Having the character of bathos. [R.]

A tick or bag made of cloth, used for inclosing the materials of a bed.

The bur marigold (Bidens) and its achenes, which are armed with barbed awns, and adhere to clothing and fleeces with unpleasant tenacity.

Occupied with, or pertaining to, belles-lettres. "An unlearned, belletristic trifler." M. Arnold.

To stick over, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

Having the qualities of an antidote, or of bezoar; healing. [Obs.]