Auriculate (a.) Alt. of Auriculated
Auriculated (a.) Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.: (a) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled. (b) (Zool.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc.
Auriferous (a.) Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold.
Auriflamme (n.) See Oriflamme.
Auriform (a.) Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.
Auriga (n.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.
Aurigal (a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot.
Aurigation (n.) The act of driving a chariot or a carriage.
Aurigraphy (n.) The art of writing with or in gold.
Aurin (n.) A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin.
Auriphrygiate (a.) Embroidered or decorated with gold.
Auripigment (n.) See Orpiment.
Auriscalp (n.) An earpick.
Auriscope (n.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
Auriscopy (n.) Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope.
Aurist (n.) One skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear.
Aurited (a.) Having lobes like the ear; auriculate.
Aurivorous (a.) Gold-devouring.
Aurocephalous (a.) Having a gold-colored head.
Aurochloride (n.) The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.
Aurochs (n.) The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused.
Aurocyanide (n.) A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.
Auroras (pl. ) of Aurora
Aurorae (pl. ) of Aurora
Aurora (n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
Aurora (n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning.
Aurora (n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.
Aurora (n.) A species of crowfoot.
Aurora (n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).
Auroral (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.
Aurous (a.) Containing gold.
Aurous (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide.
Aurum (n.) Gold.
Auscult (v. i. & t.) To auscultate.
Auscultate (v. i. & t.) To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.
Auscultation (n.) The act of listening or hearkening to.
Auscultation (n.) An examination by listening either directly with the ear (immediate auscultation) applied to parts of the body, as the abdomen; or with the stethoscope (mediate auscultation), in order to distinguish sounds recognized as a sign of health or of disease.
Auscultator (n.) One who practices auscultation.
Auscultatory (a.) Of or pertaining to auscultation.
Ausonian (a.) Italian.
Auspicate (a.) Auspicious.
Auspicate (v. t.) To foreshow; to foretoken.
Auspicate (v. t.) To give a favorable turn to in commencing; to inaugurate; -- a sense derived from the Roman practice of taking the auspicium, or inspection of birds, before undertaking any important business.
Auspices (pl. ) of Auspice
Auspice (a.) A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.
Auspice (a.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.
Auspicial (a.) Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious.
Auspicious (a.) Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.
Auspicious (a.) Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
Auspicious (a.) Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things.
Auster (n.) The south wind.
Austere () Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
Austere () Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
Austere () Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
Austerely (adv.) Severely; rigidly; sternly.
Austereness (n.) Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity.
Austereness (n.) Severity; strictness; austerity.
Austerities (pl. ) of Austerity
Austerity (n.) Sourness and harshness to the taste.
Austerity (n.) Severity of manners or life; extreme rigor or strictness; harsh discipline.
Austerity (n.) Plainness; freedom from adornment; severe simplicity.
Austin (a.) Augustinian; as, Austin friars.
Austral (a.) Southern; lying or being in the south; as, austral land; austral ocean.
Australasian (a.) Of or pertaining to Australasia; as, Australasian regions.
Australasian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Australasia.
Australian (a.) Of or pertaining to Australia.
Australian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Australia.
Australize (v. i.) To tend toward the south pole, as a magnet.
Austrian (a.) Of or pertaining to Austria, or to its inhabitants.
Austrian (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Austria.
Austrine (n.) Southern; southerly; austral.
Austro-Hungarian (a.) Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria and Hungary.
Austromancy (n.) Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.
Autarchy (n.) Self-sufficiency.
Authentic (n.) Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register.
Authentic (n.) Authoritative.
Authentic (n.) Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.
Authentic (n.) Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.
Authentic (n.) Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octave below the tonic.
Authentic (n.) An original (book or document).
Authentical (a.) Authentic.
Authentically (adv.) In an authentic manner; with the requisite or genuine authority.
Authenticalness (n.) The quality of being authentic; authenticity.
Authenticated (imp. & p. p.) of Authenticate
Authenticating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Authenticate
Authenticate (v. t.) To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
Authenticate (v. t.) To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait.
Authenticity (n.) The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
Authenticity (n.) Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original.
Authenticly (adv.) Authentically.
Authenticness (n.) The quality of being authentic; authenticity.
Authentics (n.) A collection of the Novels or New Constitutions of Justinian, by an anonymous author; -- so called on account of its authenticity.
Author (n.) The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
Author (n.) One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
Author (n.) The editor of a periodical.
Author (n.) An informant.
Author (v. t.) To occasion; to originate.
Author (v. t.) To tell; to say; to declare.
Authoress (n.) A female author.
Authorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an author.