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A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.

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.

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.

A person much given to melancholy; a hypochondriac. I. Disraeli.

Affected with melancholy; atrabilious. Arbuthnot.

Melancholy; atrabilious.

Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania. Atrabiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.…

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

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

To take, seize, or lay hold of. [Obs.] Shak.

nsequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils. The natural melancholy attendant upon his situation added to the gloom of the owner of the mansion. Sir W. Scott.

Poison; venom; corrupt matter from a sore. [Obs.] Holland.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

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

A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.…

ins the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.

A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

Auspicious. [Obs.] Holland.