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The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtiness; self-assumption;…

The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.

One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash. Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush.

r in the Pleiades (21 k and 22 l Pleiadum, of the 5.8 and 6.4 magnitude respectively), appearing as a single star of the 5.3 magnitude to the naked eye.

Bearing stars. [R.] Blount.

The act of rubbing together; friction; the act of wearing by friction, or by rubbing substances together; abrasion. Effected by attrition of the inward stomach. Arbuthnot.

The act of hearing; attention to sounds. Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. Milton.

An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.

An audience; a hearing. [Obs.] He appeals to a high audit. Milton.

The act of hearing or listening; hearing. Audition may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. [R.] Cotgrave.

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.

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

Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.

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.

Rearing and care of birds.

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

rcle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

o one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.