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To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.

m attitude; one's mental attitude in respect to religion. The attitude of the country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle. Derham.

One whose thoughts take the form of mental sounds or of internal discourse rather than of visual or motor images.

ze, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.

irds of the family Alcidæ. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (or Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.

The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.

A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.

Supplying its own power; -- applied to an instrument of the nature of a water-ram.

A system of land forms produced by the free action of rain and streams on rocks of uniform texture.

rs. The power of the driving motor varies from about 4 to 50 H. P. for ordinary vehicles, ranging from the run-about to the touring car, up to as high as 200 H. P. for specially built racing cars. Automobiles are also commonly, and generally in British usage, called motor cars.

, the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. -- Auxiliary verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.

ugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. Macaulay.

one's time; usual employment; vocation. There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose,…

Of or pertaining to an uncle. In these rare instances, the law of pedigree, whether direct or avuncular, gives way. I. Taylor.

To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25.

ke cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

spotted deer (Cervus axis or Axis maculata) of India, where it is called hog deer and parrah (Moorish name).

The journal box of a rotating axle, especially a railway axle.