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a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

men meet danger with assurance. Knolles. Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke.

The science or knowledge of the stars, esp. the fixed stars. Bouvier.

One who is versed in astronomy; one who has a knowledge of the laws of the heavenly orbs, or the principles by which their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.

Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies. Derham.

Without technical or artistic knowledge. Difficult to convey to the atechnic reader. Etching & Engr.

To adhere; to be attached. The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. Brougham.

To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain. [Obs.] Not well attaining his meaning. Fuller.

d to, or obtained by exertion; acquirement; acquisition; (pl.), mental acquirements; knowledge; as, literary and scientific attainments.

uperior, and transfers to him his homage and service; the agreement of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.

s or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

center of ossification. Owen. Autogenous soldering, the junction by fusion of the joining edges of metals without the intervention of solder.

To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. Deut. xxvi. 17.

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence. Donne.

Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- A*vow"ed*ly (, adv.

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made hea…

osilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

d of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

The part of a cutting tool on the opposite side from its edge; as, the back of a knife, or of a saw.