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yes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church. To number Ave Maries on his beads. Shak.

A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. ~= feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

stain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

The courts by which anything is carried off. Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson.

To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat, Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night. Milton.

ke the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

[More fully chenille Axminster.] A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (175…

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

ngular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

uous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones. In every babbling he finds a friend. Wordsworth.

Having many berries.

A priest of Bacchus.

A priestess of Bacchus.

Producing berries. " Bacciferous trees." Ray.

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

A man of any age who has not been married. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

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

To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. "Parliament would be backed by the people." Macaulay. Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. South. The mate backed the captain manfully. Blackw. Mag.