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Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious. [R.]

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

Consisting of the pericarp of the ripened pericarp with no other parts adnate to it, as a peach, a poppy capsule, or a grape.

The tendency of plant organs to grow in a straight line when uninfluenced by external stimuli.

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.

One skilled in bacterioscopic examinations.

To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.

One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.

A piece of parchment, or paper, containing a recognizance or bail bond.

A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

r pertaining to the bone in the base of the cranium, frequently forming a part of the occipital in the adult, but usually distinct in the young. -- n.

The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

A strong pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.

Pinched with hunger; starved. "The belly-pinched wolf." Shak.

To pinch, or mark with pinches. Chapman.

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.

Same as Bespurt.

To daub or soil with spittle. Johnson.