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les larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.

To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke.

Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. Johnson.

Sourness and harshness to the taste. [Obs.] Horsley.

To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

An execution of such sentence, by the civil power, esp. the burning of a heretic. It was usually held on Sunday, and was made a great public solemnity by impressive forms and ceremonies.

To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton.

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.

Turned away or backward. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted "To avert his ire." Milton. When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon.…

Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator.

uller. By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury.

To call from or back again. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

Turned away; away. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.

Furnished with an awning.

Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

as to form the odontoid process or peg which serves as a pivot for the atlas and head to turn upon.