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The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv.

onal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth.

n eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

sp. in hypnotism. Autosuggestion is characteristic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

oach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested. General average, a contribution made, by all parties concerned in a sea adventure, toward a loss occasioned by the voluntary sacrifice of the property of some of the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general ave…

Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

An experimenter in aviation.

To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night. Milton.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

Expressive of awe or terror. An awesome glance up at the auld castle. Sir W. Scott.

Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.

An explosive consisting of sodium nitrate, charcoal, sulphur, and petroleum.

A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

ing by decoying a person into a compromising situation and extorting money by threats of exposure. [Cant]

usually of cotton, originally made in India. Also, an imitation of this fabric made for export.

An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt. Twenty-five years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknown to the English public. De Quincey.