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an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

pendent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

Same as Kava. Johnston.

To root up. [Obs.] Johnson.

To turn away. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

ebase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.] Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson.

n change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner. Wharton. Burrill.

lime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence. There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own little…

eadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson.

aving the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

ranged; as, the axis of a cylinder, i. e., the axis of a cone, that is, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.

The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.

A baboon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. "A Babylonish garment." Josh. vii. 21.

Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous,with intoxication.

An unmarried woman. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. A garden . . . with a vineyard backed. Shak. The chalk cliffs which back the beach. Huxley.

A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algæ, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity…

The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.