APage 539
- English Word Auditress Definition A female hearer.
- English Word Auditual Definition Auditory.
- English Word Auf Definition A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
- English Word Augean Definition Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day.
- English Word Augean Definition Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
- English Word Auger Definition A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge.
- English Word Auger Definition An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water.
- English Word Auget Definition A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
- English Word Aught Definition Alt. of Aucht
- English Word Aught Definition Anything; any part.
- English Word Aught Definition At all; in any degree.
- English Word Augite Definition A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene.
- English Word Augitic Definition Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.
- English Word Augment Definition To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.
- English Word Augment Definition To add an augment to.
- English Word Augment Definition To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
- English Word Augment Definition Enlargement by addition; increase.
- English Word Augment Definition A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
- English Word Augmentable Definition Capable of augmentation.
- English Word Augmentation Definition The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.