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Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.

; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. Fit audience find, though few. Milton. He drew his audience upward to the sky. Dryden. Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. Mo…

One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

homson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

One who is self-taught; an automath.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

One who is self-taught. [R.] Young.

d; the first point of Libra. -- ~= signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.

An inordinate desire for some supposed good. All are taught an avarice of praise. Goldsmith.

ngdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. ~= feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

[He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

A bushing in the hub of a wheel, through which the axle passes.

e horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray.