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In a swoon.

concord or friendship; in agreement (with each other); as, to be, bring, make, or set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation. If gentil men, or othere of hir contree Were wrothe, she wolde bringen hem atoon. Chaucer.

To set at one; to reduce to concord; to reconcile, as parties at variance; to appease. [Obs.] I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio. Shak.

rsonal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

One who makes atonement.

Etym: [See At one.] [Obs.] Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer.

See At one. [Obs.]

To sell by auction; to auction. Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away. Cowper.

ound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

, to rely for authority. [Obs.] Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney.

the recording stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

Baboonish behavior. Marryat.

The column of bones in the back which sustains and gives firmness to the frame; the spine; the vertebral or spinal column.

Vertebrate.

Swelled out like a balloon.

One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut.

A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin. Shak.

See Barytone.

A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.