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Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls. Mrs. Browning.

Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.

[Obs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.

Automatic. [Obs.] "Automatous organs." Sir T. Browne.

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

To pull away. [Obs.] Yet are not these parts avelled. Sir T. Browne.

To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

A bathing room. Sir T. Browne.

copaiba. See Copaiba. -- Balsam of Mecca, balm of Gilead. -- Balsam of Peru, a reddish brown, syrupy balsam, obtained from a Central American tree ( Myroxylon Pereiræ and used as a stomachic and expectorant, and in the treatment of ulcers, etc. It was long supposed to be a product of Peru. -- Balsam of Tolu, a redd…

A large American owl (Syrnium nebulosum); -- so called from the transverse bars of a dark brown color on the breast.

öl.), a peculiar bear, inhabiting the Barren Grounds, now believed to be a variety of the brown bear of Europe. -- Barren Ground caribou (Zoöl.), a small reindeer (Rangifer Groenlandicus) peculiar to the Barren Grounds and Greenland.

Pertaining to the country, people, or language of Biscay; Basque [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

An inferior quality of soft brown sugar, obtained from the sirups that

Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the color of horses. Bay cat (Zoöl.), a wild cat of Africa and the East Indies (Felis aurata). -- Bay lynx (Zoöl.), the common American lynx (Felis, or Lynx, rufa).

A gum resin of reddish brown color, brought from India, Persia, and Africa.

A hat, formerly made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk. A brown beaver slouched over his eyes. Prescott.

A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells of honeycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which is collected by bees as food for their young.

A mound; a hillock. W. Browne.

Having two heads; bicipital. "Bicipitous serpents." Sir T. Browne.