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ve. Multiplication of actions upon the case were rare, formerly, and thereby wager of law ousted. Sir M. Hale.

A putting out of possession; dispossession; ejection; disseizin. Ouster of the freehold is effected by abatement, intrusion, disseizin, discontinuance, or deforcement. Blackstone. Ouster le main. Etym: [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.] (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king…

ing 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 theaters t…

Of or pertaining to acoustics.

In relation to sound or to hearing. Tyndall.

One versed in acoustics. Tyndall.

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

Relating to the boustrophedon mode of writing.

Boustrophedonic.

That part of acoustics which treats of reflected sounds or echoes See Acoustics. Hutton.

Bread baked in a mold, and scooped out, to serve minces upon. Bishop.

Pertaining to the science or doctrine of refracted sounds.

ted by passing through different mediums; -- called also diaphonics. See the Note under Acoustics.

A genus of small rubiaceous herbs, having tetramerous salveform blue or white flower. There are about twenty species, natives of North America. Also, a plant of this genus.

seback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt. [Written also just.] For the whole army to joust and tourney. Holland.

One who jousts or tilts.

Same as Microustic.

Pertaining, or suited, to the audition of small sounds; fitted to assist hearing.

Mustache.