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porter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter. The assertors of liberty said not a word. Macaulay. Faithful assertor of thy country's cause. Prior.

be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc. The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body. Med. Rep.

associating his name inseparably with some names which will last an long as our language. Macaulay.

ath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay.

An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.

A wasting away from want of nourishment; diminution in bulk or slow emaciation of the body or of any part. Milton.

. . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

Something attached; some adjunct attached to an instrument, machine, or other object; as, a sewing machine attachment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

ctively; to begin to decompose or waste. On the fourth of March he was attacked by fever. Macaulay. Hydrofluoric acid . . . attacks the glass. B. Stewart.

court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

tion, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

A hearer or listener. Macaulay.

authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle with a body so august. Byron.

ess; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

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

Independent or self-derived power; absolute or controlling authority; supremacy. The divine will moves, not by the external impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

f an automaton; self-acting or self-regulating under fixed conditions; -- esp. applied to machinery or devices in which certain things formerly or usually done by hand are done by the machine or device itself; as, the automatic feed of a lathe; automatic gas lighting; an automatic engine or switch; an automatic mouse.…

A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

An ave Maria. He repeated Aves and Credos. Macaulay.