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

to make certain or secure. And it shall be assured to him. Lev. xxvii. 19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John iii. 19.

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.

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

or superior, 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.

To settle or adjust an account. Let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed. Arbuthnot.

Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence. "Auricular assurance." Shak.

To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.] Want makes us know the price of what we avile. B. Jonson.

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.

An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles. Hume.

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

t word 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.

to walken inne by daylight. Chaucer. Behind one's back, when one is absent; without one's knowledge; as, to ridicule a person behind his back. -- Full back, Half back, Quarter back (Football), players stationed behind those in the front line. -- To be or lie on one's back, to be helpless. -- To put, or get, one's ba…