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The south wind. Pope.

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

Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity. Partly owing to the studied austerity of her dress, and partly to the lack of demonstration in her manners. Hawthorne.

Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.

by the authority of some one; to warrant; as, to authorize a report. A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam. Shak.

Self-impregnation. Darwin.

A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure.

A transformer in which part of the primary winding is used as a secondary winding, or vice versa; -- called also a compensator or balancing coil.

A process resembling "nature printing," by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, Octo…

s Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.

Act of avowing; avowal.

To wait; to stay in waiting. Darwin.

On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.

Perverse; adverse; untoward. [Obs.] "Awkward casualties." "Awkward wind." Shak. O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall.

usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and…

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. Darwin. The babble of the stream. Tennyson.

Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. Byron.