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The practice of augury.

The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.

To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.

One who practices auscultation.

e a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business. They auspicate all their proceedings. Burke.

The use of automobiles, or the practices, methods, or the like, of those who use them. -- Au`to*mo"bil*ist, n.

rn temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

orpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

Turned away or backward. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

pport; to sustain; as, to back up one's friends. -- To back a warrant (Law), is for a justice of the peace, in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender. -- To back water (Naut.), to reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or prop…

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

The practice of buying wheat and other kinds of food in one place and selling them in another for a profit. [Prov. Eng.]

To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.

The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais.

A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

Anything which allures; a lure; enticement; temptation. Fairfax.

erson who stands on a rock or eminence to espy the shoals of herring, etc., and to give notice to the men in boats which way they pass; a conder; a huer.

The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.