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To agree to become tenant to one to whom reversion has been granted.

r in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

ered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment. Wharton.

earing or listening; hearing. Audition may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing. Dunglison.

osophic movement of the 18th century characterized by a lively questioning of authority, keen interest in matters of politics and general culture, and an emphasis on empirical method in science. It received its impetus from the unsystematic but vigorous skepticism of Pierre Bayle, the physical doctrines of Newton, and…

Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.

A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.

Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. -- Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augs…

A halo, actual or figurative. The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.

A hydrous carbonate of copper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. It yields a kind of brass on reduction.

The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.

perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Cæsar, with which it has often been confused.

1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be read in churches," and has been the accepted English Bible. The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855.

r alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, Octo…

-- ~= signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.

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

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