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The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account. Yet I can make my audit up. Shak.

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authencity. Bouvier.

Justification; warrant. Wilt thou be glass wherein it shall discern Authority for sin, warrant for blame. Shak.

To justify; to furnish a ground for. Locke.

To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.

A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. We might be disposed to question its authencity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. Milman.

To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone.

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. Cowell.

The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

rd process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

support; to sustain; as, to back up one's friends. -- To back a warrant (Law), is for a justice of the peace, in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender. -- To back water (Naut.), to reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or p…

A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…

The state of being in equipoise; equilibrium; even adjustment; steadiness. And hung a bottle on each side To make his balance true. Cowper. The order and balance of the country were destroyed. Buckle. English workmen completely lose their balance. J. S. Mill.

The act or result of balancing or adjusting; equipoise; even adjustment of forces. [R.] Darwin.

ch, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.

To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast. Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there. Coleridge.