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thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong. Dryden.

To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. [Obs.] Enough, captain; you have astonished him. [Fluellen had struck Pistol]. Shak. The very cramp-fish [i. e., torpedo] . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland.

The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.

their motions are regulated, with their various phenomena. An undevout astronomer is mad. Young.

A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.

attain to Phenice. Acts xxvii. 12. Nor nearer might the dogs attain. Sir W. Scott. To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber. Cowper. Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this. J. R. Green.

s with physical or mental disease or with moral contagion; to taint or corrupt. My tender youth was never yet attaint With any passion of inflaming love. Shak.

r overcome; as, one who attempts the virtue of a woman. Dear sir, of force I must attempt you further: Take some remembrance of us, as a tribute. Shak.

The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton.

To adorn with trapping; to array. [Obs.] Shall your horse be attrapped . . . more richly Holland.

The things sold by auction or put up to auction. Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys Pope.

in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).

rious aureole of light seen around the sun during total eclipses. Proctor. The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.

One who is self-taught. [R.] Young.

avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.

he right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur. The babble of our young children. Darwin. The babble of the stream. Tennyson.

An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.