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Severity; strictness; austerity. Shak.

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

Augustinian; as, Austin friars.

Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean. Austral signs (Astron.), the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator.

Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions. -- n.

Of or pertaining to Australia. -- n.

A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

the south pole, as a magnet. [Obs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants. -- n.

Southern; southerly; austral. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria and Hungary.

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

See Army organization, Switzerland.

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

Having its own head; independent of episcopal or patriarchal jurisdiction, as certain Greek churches.

Aboriginal; indigenous; native.

rough all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

Characterized by autogamy; self-fertilized.

Developed from an independent center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.