Augur (v. i.) To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.
Augur (v. i.) To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.
Augur (v. t.) To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.
Augural (a.) Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books.
Augurate (v. t. & i.) To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict.
Augurate (n.) The office of an augur.
Auguration (n.) The practice of augury.
Augurer (n.) An augur.
Augurial (a.) Relating to augurs or to augury.
Augurist (n.) An augur.
Angurize (v. t.) To augur.
Augurous (a.) Full of augury; foreboding.
Augurship (n.) The office, or period of office, of an augur.
Auguries (pl. ) of Augury
Augury (n.) The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
Augury (n.) An omen; prediction; prognostication; indication of the future; presage.
Augury (n.) A rite, ceremony, or observation of an augur.
August (a.) Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority.
August (a.) The eighth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Augustan (n.) Of or pertaining to Augustus Caesar or to his times.
Augustan (n.) Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg.
Augustine (n.) Alt. of Augustinian
Augustinian (n.) A member of one of the religious orders called after St. Augustine; an Austin friar.
Augustinian (a.) Of or pertaining to St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo in Northern Africa (b. 354 -- d. 430), or to his doctrines.
Augustinian (n.) One of a class of divines, who, following St. Augustine, maintain that grace by its nature is effectual absolutely and creatively, not relatively and conditionally.
Augustinianism (n.) Alt. of Augustinism
Augustinism (n.) The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians.
Augustly (adv.) In an august manner.
Augustness (n.) The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.
Auk (n.) A name given to various species of arctic sea birds of the family Alcidae. The great auk, now extinct, is Alca (/ Plautus) impennis. The razor-billed auk is A. torda. See Puffin, Guillemot, and Murre.
Aukward (a.) See Awkward.
Aularian (a.) Relating to a hall.
Aularian (n.) At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian.
Auld (a.) Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh.
Auld lang syne () A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past.
Auletic (a.) Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper.
Aulic (a.) Pertaining to a royal court.
Aulic (n.) The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity 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).
Auln (n.) An ell. [Obs.] See Aune.
Aulnage (n.) Alt. of Aulnager
Aulnager (n.) See Alnage and Alnager.
Aum (n.) Same as Aam.
Aumail (v. t.) To figure or variegate.
Aumbry (n.) Same as Ambry.
Aumery (n.) A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.
Auncel (n.) A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.
Auncetry (n.) Ancestry.
Aune (n.) A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter.
Aunt (n.) The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Aunt (n.) An old woman; and old gossip.
Aunt (n.) A bawd, or a prostitute.
Auntter (n.) Adventure; hap.
Aunter (v. t.) Alt. of Auntre
Auntre (v. t.) To venture; to dare.
Auntie (n.) Alt. of Aunty
Aunty (n.) A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.
Auntrous (a.) Adventurous.
Aurae (pl. ) of Aura
Aura (n.) 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.
Aura (n.) The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics.
Aural (a.) Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.
Aural (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.
Aurantiaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceae, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.
Aurate (n.) A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.
Aurated (a.) Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.
Aurated (a.) Combined with auric acid.
Aurated (a.) Having ears. See Aurited.
Aureate (a.) Golden; gilded.
Aurelia (n.) The chrysalis, or pupa of an insect, esp. when reflecting a brilliant golden color, as that of some of the butterflies.
Aurelia (n.) A genus of jellyfishes. See Discophora.
Aurelian (a.) Of or pertaining to the aurelia.
Aurelian (n.) An amateur collector and breeder of insects, esp. of butterflies and moths; a lepidopterist.
Aureola (n.) Alt. of Aureole
Aureole (n.) A celestial crown or accidental glory added to the bliss of heaven, as a reward to those (as virgins, martyrs, preachers, etc.) who have overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil.
Aureole (n.) The circle of rays, or halo of light, with which painters surround the figure and represent the glory of Christ, saints, and others held in special reverence.
Aureole (n.) A halo, actual or figurative.
Aureole (n.) See Areola, 2.
Auric (a.) Of or pertaining to gold.
Auric (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence; as, auric oxide; auric chloride.
Aurichalceous (a.) Brass-colored.
Aurichalcite (n.) A hydrous carbonate of copper and zinc, found in pale green or blue crystalline aggregations. It yields a kind of brass on reduction.
Auricle (n.) The external ear, or that part of the ear which is prominent from the head.
Auricle (n.) The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.
Auricle (n.) An angular or ear-shaped lobe.
Auricle (n.) An instrument applied to the ears to give aid in hearing; a kind of ear trumpet.
Auricled (a.) Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricled leaves.
Auriculae (pl. ) of Auricula
Auriculas (pl. ) of Auricula
Auricula (n.) A species of Primula, or primrose, called also, from the shape of its leaves, bear's-ear.
Auricula (n.) A species of Hirneola (H. auricula), a membranaceous fungus, called also auricula Judae, or Jew's-ear.
Auricula (n.) A genus of air-breathing mollusks mostly found near the sea, where the water is brackish
Auricula (n.) One of the five arched processes of the shell around the jaws of a sea urchin.
Auricular (a.) Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
Auricular (a.) Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
Auricular (a.) Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.
Auricular (a.) Received by the ear; known by report.
Auricular (a.) Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.
Auricularia (n. pl.) A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.
Auricularly (adv.) In an auricular manner.
Auriculars (n. pl.) A circle of feathers surrounding the opening of the ear of birds.