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An audience; a hearing. [Obs.] He appeals to a high audit. Milton.

A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment. Wharton.

The act of hearing or listening; hearing. Audition may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing. Dunglison.

Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. [R.] Cotgrave.

A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.

Auditory. [R.]

The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

The office or function of auditor.

Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear. Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.

A female hearer. Milton.

Auditory. [R.] Coleridge.

A mark or expression of applause; praise bestowed. Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng. Longfellow.

Applauding; commending.

The act of understanding, or supplying, something not expressed; also, that which is so understood or supplied. Trench.

Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient the…

business is to put questions. Formerly, in the English Court of Exchequer, an officer who audited the sheriffs' accounts.

An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers. Fit audience find, though few. Milton. He drew his audience upward to the sky. Dryden. Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), a court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop…

An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.

rominence below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

p. the largest and deepest concavity of the external ear, surrounding the entrance to the auditory canal.