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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.]

Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy. "Avid of gold, yet greedier of renown." Southey.

away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

The Neapolitan medlar (Cratægus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit.

A handsome Asiatic tree (Melia azedarach), common in the southern United States; -- called also, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

A kind of bass, an edible fresh-water fish (Pomoxys annularis) of the southern United States.

ave still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. South. The mate backed the captain manfully. Blackw. Mag.

A secret enemy. [Obs.] South.

ng; not quick of apprehension; dull; inapt; as, a backward child. "The backward learner." South.

"A baffled purpose." De Quincey. A suitable scripture ready to repel and baffle them all. South. Calculations so difficult as to have baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequen…

A piece of pork cut lower down than the sparerib, and destitute of fat. [Eng.] Southey.

A hindrance or disappointment; a check. A balk to the confidence of the bold undertaker. South.

A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.