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articular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.

A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

w the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.

ld feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

lace of retreat and security. Earth has no other asylum for them than its own cold bosom. Southey.

an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts. "Athletic soundness." South. -- Ath*let"ic*al*ly, adv.

A species of sand grouse (Syrrghaptes Pallasii) found in Asia and rarely in southern Europe.

ts or draws; an attraction; an allurement. Speaks nothing but attractives and invitation. South.

A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

Embroidered or decorated with gold. [R.] Southey.

The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights). Aurora borealis (, i. e., northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zen…

The south wind. Pope.

Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean. Austral signs (Astron.), the last six signs of the zodiac, or those south of the equator.

A system of balloting or voting in public elections, originally used in South Australia, in which there is such an arrangement for polling votes that secrecy is compulsorily maintained, and the ballot used is an official ballot printed and distributed by the government.

To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet. [Obs.] They [magnets] do septentrionate at one extreme, and australize at another. Sir T. Browne.

Southern; southerly; austral. [Obs.] Bailey.

ternal impulse or inclination of objects, but determines itself by an absolute autocracy. South.

n. Hawthorne. Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. -- ~= point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. -- ~= signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, throug…

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]