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To study or to talk astronomy. [R.] They astronomized in caves. Sir T. Browne.

Any place of retreat and security. Earth has no other asylum for them than its own cold bosom. Southey.

heric line (Steam Engin.), the equilibrium line of an indicator card. Steam is expanded "down to the atmosphere" when its pressure is equal to that of the atmosphere. (See Indicator card.) -- Atmospheric pressure, the pressure exerted by the atmosphere, not merely downwards, but in every direction. In amounts to about…

Etym: [See At one.] [Obs.] Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer.

ng a false verdict. [Obs.] Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone.

To make an attempt; -- with upon. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

dant evils. The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. Sir W. Scott.

An attendant circumstance. [Obs.] The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.

One who, or that which, attracts. Sir T. Browne

With a crust made by browning in the oven; as, spaghetti may be served au gratin.

Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.

Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls. Mrs. Browning.

urt (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literatu…

A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence. "Auricular assurance." Shak.

bs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.

ts over children; the authority of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things Matt. xxi. 23.

A combining form, with the meaning of self, one's self, one's own, itself, its own.