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The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

Not voluntary; not depending on the will; mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions. Unconscious or automatic reasoning. H. Spenser. Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. Ure.

ic of certain mental conditions in which expectant belief tends to produce disturbance of function of one or more organs.

ilable months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares. H. Spenser.

the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives, the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.…

A banderole; esp. a banner displayed at a funeral procession and set over the tomb. See Banderole.

Fig.: The fundamental or essential part of a thing; the essential principle; a groundwork.

A large subdivision of fungi coördinate with the Ascomycetes, characterized by having the spores borne on a basidium. It embraces those fungi best known to the public, such as mushrooms, toadstools, etc.

blong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example.

Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm.

The ground work the first or fundamental principle; that which supports. The basis of public credit is good faith. A. Hamilton.

ve or nonacid constituent of compound, either elementary, or, if compound, performing the functions of an element.

d to 10º in pure water. In both cases the graduation, based on the distance between these fundamental points, is continued along the stem as far as desired. Since all the degrees on a Baumé scale are thus equal in length, while those on a specific- gravity scale grow smaller as the density increases, there is no simple…

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.

To be the concern or proper business or function of; to appertain to. "Do not interpretations belong to God " Gen. xl. 8.

receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate. The rich men will be offering sacrifice to their Deity whose beneficiaries they are. Jer. Taylor.

A church road (e. g., a path across fields) for funerals. [Obs.] Homilies.

pound (Chem.), a compound of two elements, or of an element and a compound performing the function of an element, or of two compounds performing the function of elements. -- Binary logarithms, a system of logarithms devised by Euler for facilitating musical calculations, in which 1 is logarithm of 2, instead of 10, as…