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Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.

Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceæ, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

Of or pertaining to, or used by, both ears.

See Aurochloride.

See Aurocyanide.

Gilded. [Obs.]

Act of gilding. [Obs.]

Covered with gold; gilded.

The act or process of gilding or covering with gold.

To renew or renovate. [R.]

lapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance. Some great catastrophe or . . . instauration. T. Burnet.

One who renews or restores to a former condition. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior. C. Kingsley.

Belonging to, or resembling, a natural order (Lauraceæ) of trees and shrubs having aromatic bark and foliage, and including the laurel, sassafras, cinnamon tree, true camphor tree, etc.

A salt of lauric acid.

An eating house.

To restore. [Obs.]