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The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

The office or function of auditor.

Of 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.

A female hearer. Milton.

Auditory. [R.] Coleridge.

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. His books were received and read with avidity. Milward.

An outlaw; a brigand. No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer. Milton.

The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.

A hydrous sulphate of magnesium and sodium.

Heat. [Obs.]

Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness. [R.] Her eagly-eyed callidity. C. Smart.

A variety of spinel, of a dark color, found at Candy, in Ceylon.

Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocardris and Pericarditis. Dunglison.

A fluosilicate of magnesia and iron, yellow to red in color, often occurring in granular form in a crystalline limestone.

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

mmodation; profit; benefit; advantage; interest; commodiousness. [Obs.] Drawn by the commodity of a footpath. B. Jonson. Men may seek their own commodity, yet if this were done with injury to others, it was not to be suffered. Hooker.

To pickle; to preserve; as, to condite pears, quinces, etc. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

tal integrity, health, strength, etc.; predicament; rank; position, estate. I am in my condition A prince, Miranda; I do think, a king. Shak. And O, what man's condition can be worse Than his whom plenty starves and blessings curse Cowley. The new conditions of life. Darwin.

Containing, implying, or depending on, a condition or conditions; not absolute; made or granted on certain terms; as, a conditional promise. Every covenant of God with man . . . may justly be made (as in fact it is made) with this conditional punishment annexed and declared. Bp. Warburton.

The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.