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nd having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.

A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.

A species of crowfoot. Johnson.

Obs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Barrow.

To occasion; to originate. [Obs.] Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman.

r acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

Automatic. [Obs.] "Automatous organs." Sir T. Browne.

By means of ocular view, or one's own observation. Sir T. Browne.

The tendency of plant organs to grow in a straight line when uninfluenced by external stimuli.

umnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa. Milton.

An instrument to measure the growth of plants. Goodale.

To pull away. [Obs.] Yet are not these parts avelled. Sir T. Browne.

A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic] One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.

To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent] His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper.

ht course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

wn a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one. -- To back the field, in horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win. -- To back the oars, to row backwar…