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being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty. Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. x. 22.

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

A skeleton. [Ludicrous] Shak.

pute, by criticism or satire; to censure; as, to attack a man, or his opinions, in a pamphlet.

Attentive; heedful. [Archaic] Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer. 2 Chron. vi. 40.

Fig.: Position as indicating action, feeling, or mood; as, in times of trouble let a nation preserve a firm attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

, for conference or the transaction of business. According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak. Shak.

To settle or adjust an account. Let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed. Arbuthnot.

ngeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.] Drayton.

A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.…

To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] C. Middleton.

t. Augustine. -- Augustinian rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders.

hes," and has been the accepted English Bible. The Revised Version was published in a complete form in 1855.

In one's own handwriting; as, an autograph letter; an autograph will.

To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff. [Obs.] Chaucer.

An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. [Obs.] Let God alone be our avowry. Latimer.

Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. Before whom awake I stood. Milton. She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. Keats. He was awake to the danger. Froude.

Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

Axle or axletree. [Obs.] Drayton.