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unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.

To astonish; to strike with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. Milton.

The universal ego from whom all individual atmans arise. This sense is a European excrescence on the East Indian thought.

heories of Locke, in the preceding century. Its chief center was in France, where it gave rise to the skepticism of Voltaire , the naturalism of Rousseau, the sensationalism of Condillac, and the publication of the "Encyclopedia" by D'Alembert and Diderot. In Germany, Lessing, Mendelssohn, and Herder were representativ…

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

, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler. The chief glory every people arises from its authors. Johnson.

One who is supposed to rise or spring from the ground or the soil he inhabits; one of the original inhabitants or aborigines; a native; -- commonly in the plural. This title was assumed by the ancient Greeks, particularly the Athenians.

the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs. Aware of nothing arduous in a task They never undertook. Cowper.

Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. [Scot.]

ng only powder. -- Ball cock, a faucet or valve which is opened or closed by the fall or rise of a ball floating in water at the end of a lever. -- Ball gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. Knight. -- Ball lever, the le…

ade of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aërial navigation.

n of mercury in the tube descends until balanced by the weight of the atmosphere, and its rise or fall under varying conditions is a measure of the change in the atmospheric pressure. At the sea level its ordinary height is about 30 inches (760 millimeters). See Sympiesometer. Nichol. Aneroid barometer. See Aneroid bar…

anges of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes.

takes of the common bass and the tenor, but which does not descend as low as the one, nor rise as high as the other.

In mechanics an apparatus on the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls. Bascule bridge, a counterpoise or balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air.

for recruits, to go diligently about in order to get helpers or participators in an enterprise.

To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence. Vast chain of being! which from God began. Pope.

Enterprise. "To hinder our beginnings." Shak.