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Automatic. [Obs.] "Automatous organs." Sir T. Browne.

Independent in government; having the right or power of self- government.

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Avaricious. [Obs.]

Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.

Avid.

Eagerly; greedily.

: Nitrous; as, azotous acid. [R.]

Of a fine blue color; azure.

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

Unleavened; unfermented. "Azymous bread." Dunglison.

A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. Swift.

See Babyroussa.

A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

Producing berries. " Bacciferous trees." Ray.

Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.