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Auspicious. [Obs.] Holland.

Protection; patronage and care; guidance. Which by his auspice they will nobler make. Dryden.

Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious. [R.]

le issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay.

Relating to bacterioscopy; as, a bacterioscopic examination.

Pertaining to, or determined by, the baroscope.

To season with spice, or with some spicy drug. Shak.

A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to and resembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.]

Of or pertaining to Calippus, an Athenian astronomer. Calippic period, a period of seventy-six years, proposed by Calippus, as an improvement on the Metonic cycle, since the 6940 days of the Metonic cycle exceeded 19 years by about a quarter of a day, and exceeded 235 lunations by something more.

A heavy, colorless liquid, CCl3.NO2, of a strong pungent odor, obtained by subjecting picric acid to the action of chlorine. [Written also chloropikrin.]

The state or quality of being clear or bright; brightness; conspicuosness. [R.] Chapman.

le; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess stood. Sir W. Scott.

shwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse. The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery of coal mines. Locke.

Pertaining to the Cyclops; Cyclopean.

Depicted. Lydgate.

A painting or depicting; a representation.

To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.

Despicableness. [R.] Carlyle.

Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.

The quality of being despicable; meanness; vileness; worthlessness.