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One who practices auscultation.

give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke.

The use of automobiles, or the practices, methods, or the like, of those who use them. -- Au`to*mo"bil*ist, n.

The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng.]

To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.

The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais.

The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aëronautics.

The practice of exciting and encouraging lawsuits and quarrels. [Also spelt barretry.] Coke. Blackstone.

The act or practice of trafficking by exchange of commodities; an exchange of goods. The spirit of huckstering and barter. Burke.

eople of the Bantu stock, divided into many tribes, subject to the English. They formerly practiced cannibalism, but have now adopted many European customs.

One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.

The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

Tried; practiced. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

A kind of divination anciently practiced by means of marked arrows drawn at random from a bag or quiver, the marks on the arrows drawn being supposed to foreshow the future. Encyc. Brit.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

The practice or habit of drinking too much; tippling. Blount.

A small decorative object without practical utility.