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One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

One who studies the stars; an astronomer. [Obs.]

One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.

An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

In chemistry it is used to denote the salts formed from those acids whose names end -ic (excepting binary or halogen acids); as, sulphate from sulphuric acid, nitrate from nitric acid, etc. It is also used in the case of certain basic salts.

One who disbelieves or denies the existence of a God, or supreme intelligent Being.

One who contended for a prize in the public games of ancient Greece or Rome.

One who sustains a great burden.

The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

One who is versed in atmology.

The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.

osphere. [R.] In am so atmospherical a creature. Pope. Atmospheric engine, a steam engine whose piston descends by the pressure of the atmosphere, when the steam which raised it is condensed within the cylinder. Tomlinson. -- Atmospheric line (Steam Engin.), the equilibrium line of an indicator card. Steam is expanded…

n some simple ratio, as of one to one, two to three, or some other, always expressible in whole numbers. -- Atomic weight (Chem.), the weight of the atom of an element as compared with the weight of the atom of hydrogen, taken as a standard.

One who holds to the atomic philosophy or theory. Locke.

One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

One who makes atonement.

in part of either auricle of the heart as distinct from the auricular appendix. Also, the whole articular portion of the heart.