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Adventurous. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceæ, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.

Brass-colored.

Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold. Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Gold-devouring. [R.] H. Walpole.

Having a gold-colored head.

; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide.

To auscultate.

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate ~), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.

One who practices auscultation.

Of or pertaining to auscultation. Dunglison.

Italian. Milton.

Auspicious. [Obs.] Holland.

Protection; patronage and care; guidance. Which by his auspice they will nobler make. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious. [R.]

able issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

The south wind. Pope.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

Severely; rigidly; sternly. A doctrine austerely logical. Macaulay.