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That which is superadded; augmentation. [Obs.] Baxter.

Received by the ear; known by report. "Auricular traditions." Bacon.

A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.

In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. On an average, taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities.

Eradication. [R.] De Quincey.

etmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

aken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

passing through the center of the pupil, and perpendicular to the surface of the eye. -- Radical axis of two circles (Geom.), the straight line perpendicular to the line joining their centers and such that the tangents from any point of it to the two circles shall be equal to each other. -- Spiral axis (Arch.), the a…

ecially applied to compounds containing a two atom nitrogen group uniting two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.

of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

ents. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees women from many of the degradations imposed upon them among the orthodox Mohammedans. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced. --Bab"ist, n.

reate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.

In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [Obs.]

ack stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair, in the Vocabulary. -- Back step (Mil.), the retrograde movement of a man or body of men, without changing front. -- Back stream, a current running against the main current of a stream; an eddy. -- To take the back track, to retrace one's steps; to retreat. [Colloq.]…

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

so brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

on (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is thought to be an effect of irradiation, and of inequalities of the moon's edge.

The trade of a baker. [R.]