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ed in assaying, for convenience. Since it bears the same relation to the milligram that a ton of 2000 avoirdupois pounds does to the troy ounce, the weight in milligrams of precious metal obtained from an assay ton of ore gives directly the number of ounces to the ton.

To stun; to astonish; to stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.

To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. [Obs.] Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [Fluellen had struck Pistol]. Shak. The very cramp-fish [i. e., torpedo] . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland.

In an astonished manner. [R.] Bp. Hall.

Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event.

unned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [Archaic] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.

which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton.

Admitting an atonement; capable of being atoned for; expiable.

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.

ersonal 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.

Characterized by atony, or want of vital energy; as, an atonic disease.

Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

At once; together. [Obs.] Spenser.

See At one. [Obs.]

having the power of spontaneous motion or action. Huxley. So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle. These living automata, human bodies. Boyle.