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Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.

f or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.

not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45 But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison.

See Algorism. [Obs.] Chaucer. Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration. -- Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. Chaucer.

To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel.

great auk, now extinct, is Alca (or Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.

See Awkward. [Obs.]

An ell. [Obs.] See Aune.

See Alnage and Alnager.

m an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.

Having ears. See Aurited.

A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.

A halo, actual or figurative. The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.

les; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

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

See Oriflamme.

See Orpiment. [Obs.]

Gold. Aurum fulminans (See Fulminate. -- Aurum mosaicum (See Mosaic.

See Army organization, Switzerland.

Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth.