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

ens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

rily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

e over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority of a court. Thus can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things Matt. xxi. 23.

Supreme, uncontrolled, unlimited authority, or right of governing in a single person, as of an autocrat.

An absolute sovereign; a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government by claim of absolute right, not subject to restriction; as, Autocrat of all the Russias (a title of the Czar).

ing to autocracy or to an autocrat; absolute; holding independent and arbitrary powers of government. -- Au`to*crat"ic*al*ly, adv.

a word of common or general signification for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

Having the power of self-government; autonomous. Hickok.

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

The power or right of self-government; self-government, or political independence, of a city or a state.

The doctrine of God's self-existence. [R.]

An instrument to measure the growth of plants. Goodale.

An inordinate desire for some supposed good. All are taught an avarice of praise. Goldsmith.

Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

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

A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

A tariff or duty on goods, etc. [Obs.]

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

To turn away. [Archaic] Cold and averting from our neighbor's good. Thomson.