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One who is self-taught; an automath.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

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

Pertaining to an autograph, or one's own handwriting; of the nature of an autograph.

Hypnotism of one's self by concentration of the attention on some object or idea.

In fire-alarm telegraphy, a system so arranged that when one alarm is being transmitted, no other alarm, sent in from another point, will be transmitted until after the first alarm has been disposed of.

One who is self-taught. [R.] Young.

A self-moving machine, or one which has its motive power within itself; -- applied chiefly to machines which appear to imitate spontaneously the motions of living beings, such as men, birds, etc.

Patterned after one's self. The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic. H. Spenser.

One who advocates autonomy.

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical. [R.] Hare.

Personal observation or examination; seeing with one's own eyes; ocular view. By autopsy and experiment. Cudworth.

Seen with one's own eyes; belonging to, or connected with, personal observation; as, autoptic testimony or experience.

By means of ocular view, or one's own observation. Sir T. Browne.

n mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

Deification of one's self; self-worship. [R.]

One given to self-worship. [R.]

To promote; to assist. [Obs.] Pope. To avail one's self of, to make use of; take advantage of. Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names. Milton. I have availed myself of the very first opportunity. Dickens.

Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. H…