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Filtering: AU | Found: 300 words.
Expert; skillful; well instructed.
An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning.
Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized.
An alb.
An inn.
A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.
Auburn
2 defs
Flaxen-colored.
The part of the neck nearest the back.
Property; possession.
That which is superadded; augmentation.
Auction
3 defs
A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.
Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer.
Auctioneer
2 defs
A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is to dispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or best bidder.
Birdcatching; fowling.
Audacious
3 defs
Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum.
In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.
The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.
Audacity
2 defs
Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.
The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.
Audible
2 defs
Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.
The quality of being audible.
So as to be heard.
Audience
3 defs
Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
Audient
2 defs
A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church.
An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.
An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.
Audit
6 defs
A general receptacle or receiver.
A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment is recovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such...
of Audit
of Audit
The act of hearing or listening; hearing.
Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory.
Auditor
3 defs
A hearer or listener.
Auditory.
The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.
The office or function of auditor.
Auditory
3 defs
An assembly of hearers; an audience.
A female hearer.
Auditory.
A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
Augean
2 defs
Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
Auger
2 defs
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 ...
A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
Aught
3 defs
Alt. of Aucht
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.
Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.
Augment
5 defs
A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Capable of augmentation.
Augmentation
6 defs
A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.
Augmentative
2 defs
A word which expresses with augmented force the idea or the properties of the term from which it is derived; as, dullard, one very dull. Opposed to diminutive.