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In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.

. Augean stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.

In an august manner.

An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet. Mansfield.

In an auricular manner.

Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold. Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life. From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. Dryden.

Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline. The austerity of John the Baptist. Milton.

In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.

eeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

In an autogenous manner; spontaneously.

That which is written with one's own hand; an original manuscript; a person's own signature or handwriting.

ns. Unconscious or automatic reasoning. H. Spenser. Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. Ure.

In an automatic manner.

The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according to Kant, consist the true nature and only possible proof of liberty. Fleming.

Having the mandibular arch articulated directly to the cranium, as in the skulls of the Amphibia.

to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.

orce, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.

In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.