Search the Dictionary

A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.

any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of…

A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.

doctrines. Augustinian canons, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons. -- Augustinian hermits or Austin friars, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. --…

A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."

he Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that empire are called aulic councilors. P. Cyc.

ed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.

art, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear. (b)

Pertaining to the auricles of the heart. Auricular finger, the little finger; so called because it can be readily introduced into the ear passage.

A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow coralin.

ide of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.

A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.

lis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few…

Authentically.

collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

Self-moving; moving automatically.

re is a deficiency of power the dynamo reverses and acts as an auxiliary motor. Sometimes called Pieper system. -- Automixte car, etc.

ecially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.

Acting or moving automatically by means of compressed air.