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Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot.

Melancholic or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

Extremely heinous; full of enormous wickedness; as, atrocious quilt or deeds.

The act of attempering or regulating. [Archaic] Bacon.

The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, thought, or regard; obedient or affectionate heed; the supposed power or faculty of attending. They say the tongues of dying men En…

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land with alluvial earth. [Obs.]

The act of attesting; testimony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

een bodies or ultimate particles, tending to draw them together, or to produce their cohesion or combination, and conversely resisting separation.

The central mass of the aster in mitotic cell division; centrosphere.

Frequent handling or touching. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

The act of attributing or ascribing, as a quality, character, or function, to a thing or person, an effect to a cause.

The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

The things sold by auction or put up to auction. Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys Pope.

A variety of the game of bridge in which the players, beginning with the dealer, bid for the privilege of naming the trump and playing with the dummy for that deal, there being heavy penalties for a player's failure to make good his bid. The score value of each trick more than six taken by the successful bidder is as f…

A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.

Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. [R.] With auctionary hammer in thy hand. Dryden.

A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.

Birdcatching; fowling. [Obs.] Blount.