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The practice or peculiar cleverness of attorneys.

ells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet. Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. Dryden.

Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To min…

urround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

est. This next chapter is a penitent confession of the king, and the strangest . . . that ever was auricular. Milton.

Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden.

Severely; rigidly; sternly. A doctrine austerely logical. Macaulay.

Severity; strictness; austerity. Shak.

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

ok; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

i Pieper, a Belgian) of driving automobiles employing a gasoline engine and an auxiliary reversible dynamo. When there is an excess of power the dynamo is driven by the engine so as to charge a small storage battery; when there is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes calle…

A reverential salutation. Their loud applause and aves vehement. Shak.

pine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

ed; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.

his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

ecoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

scious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs. Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook. Cowper.

d by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence. There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the l…