Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 108
Atwain (adv.) 【古】成雙；分為二 In twain; asunder. [Obs. or Poetic] "Cuts atwain the knots." -- Tennyson.
Atween (adv. or prep.) Between. [Archaic] --Spenser. Tennyson.
Atwirl (a. & adv.) 急速旋轉的（地） Twisted; distorted; awry. [R.] -- Halliwell.
Atwite (v. t.) To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]
Atwixt (adv.) Betwixt. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Atwo (adv.) In two; in twain; asunder. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Atypic (a.) 非典型的；不合規則的；不定形的；破格的 Alt. of Atypical
Atypical (a.) 非典型的；不合規則的；不定形的；破格的；反常的 That has no type; devoid of typical character; irregular; unlike the type.
Atypical (a.) Not representative of a group, class, or type; "a group that is atypical of the target audience"; "a class of atypical mosses"; "atypical behavior is not the accepted type of response that we expect from children" [syn: atypical, untypical] [ant: typical].
Atypical (a.) Deviating from normal expectations; somewhat odd, strange, or abnormal; "these days large families are atypical"; "atypical clinical findings"; "atypical pneumonia"; "highly irregular behavior" [syn: atypical, irregular].
Atypical (a.) 非典型的；異常的；不同尋常的 Different from all others of the same type.
// The sociable behaviour of lions is considered atypical of the cat family.
Aubade (n.) An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from an evening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive of morning. -- Grove.
The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear. -- Longfellow.
Aubaine (n.) (Historical, law) Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. -- Littr['e].
Droit d'aubaine, The right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. -- Bouvier.
Aubaine (n.), French law. When a foreigner died in France, the crown by virtue of a right called droit d'aubaine, formerly claimed all the personal property such foreigner had in France at the time of his death. This barbarous law was swept away by the French revolution of 1789. Vide Albinatus Jus. 1 Malleville's Analyse de la Discussion du Code Civil, pp. 26, 28 1 Toullier, 236, n. 265.
Aube (n.) An alb. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Compare: Alb
Alb (n.) (pl. Albs) (Christianity, chiefly Anglicanism, Roman Catholicism) A long, white robe worn by priests and other ministers, underneath most of the other vestments.
Auberge (n.) 【法】客棧 An inn. -- Beau. & Fl.
Auberge (n.) A hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers [syn: hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge].
Aubin (n.) A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop; -- commonly called a Canterbury gallop.
Compare: Canterbury gallop
Canterbury gallop (n.) (pl. Canterbury gallops) 小跑 A broken gait of a horse, between an amble and a gallop. Syn: Aubin.
Auburn (a.) Flaxen-colored. [Obs.] -- Florio.
Auburn (a.) 赤褐色的；赭色的 Reddish brown.
His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. -- Dryden.
Compare: Reddish
Reddish (a.) 帶紅色的，淡紅的 Having a red tinge; slightly red.
‘The leaves turn reddish brown.’
‘Reddish sandstone.’
Compare: Tinge
Tinge (n.) （較淡的）色調，色彩 [C] [S1] [（+of）]；些許味道（或氣息）；一絲痕跡（或性質）[S] [（+of）] A trace of a colour.
‘There was a faint pink tinge to the sky.’
Tinge (n.) A slight trace of a feeling or quality.
‘In their sound you'll find punky tinges and folky tinges.’
Tinge (v.) [With object] (v. t.) [H] [(+with)]（輕淡地）給……著色，染；使帶有……氣息（或痕跡等） Colour slightly.
‘A mass of white blossom tinged with pink.’
[With object and complement] “Towards the sun the sky was tinged crimson.’
Tinge (v.) [With object] Permeate or imbue slightly with a feeling or quality.
‘This visit will be tinged with sadness.’
Auburn (a.) (Of hair) Colored a moderate reddish-brown; "auburn hair".
Auburn (a.) (Of hair) Of a reddish-brown colour.
Auburn (n.) [Mass noun] 赤褐色，赭色 [U] A reddish-brown colour.
Auchenium (n.) (Zool.) The part of the neck nearest the back.
Auchenium (n.) (Zoology) The posterior portion of the neck in birds.
Auctary (n.) That which is superadded; augmentation. [Obs.] -- Baxter.
Auction (n.) 拍賣 [C] [U]；競叫橋牌（一種早期橋牌戲）[U] A public sale of property to the highest bidder, esp. by a person licensed and authorized for the purpose; a vendue.
Auction (n.) The things sold by auction or put up to auction.
Ask you why Phryne the whole auction buys ? -- Pope.
Note: In the United States, the more prevalent expression has been "sales at auction," that is, by an increase of bids (Lat. auctione). This latter form is preferable.
Dutch auction, the public offer of property at a price beyond its value, then gradually lowering the price, till some one accepts it as purchaser. -- P. Cyc.
Auction (v. t.) 拍賣，把……拍賣掉 [（+off）] To sell by auction.
Auction (n.) A variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge [syn: auction, auction bridge].
Auction (n.) The public sale of something to the highest bidder [syn: auction, auction sale, vendue].
Auction (v.) Sell at an auction [syn: auction, auction off, auctioneer].
Auction (n.), Commerce, contract. A public sale of property to the highest bidder. Among the Romans this kind of sale, was made by a crier under a spear (sub hasta) stuck in the ground.
Auction (n.) Auctions are generally held by express authority, and the person who conducts them is licensed to do so under various regulations.
Auction (n.) The manner of conducting an auction is immaterial; whether it be by public outcry or by any other manner. The essential part is the selection of a purchaser from a number of bidders. In a case where a woman continued silent during the whole time of the sale, but whenever anyone bid she gave him a glass of brandy, and when the sale broke up, the person who received the last glass of brandy was taken into a private room, and he was declared to be the purchaser; this was adjudged to be an auction. 1 Dow. 115.
Auction (n.) The law requires fairness in auction sales, and when a puffer is employed to raise the property offered for sale on bona fide bidders, or a combination is entered into between two or more persons not to overbid each other, the contract may in general be avoided. Vide Puffer, and 6 John. R. 194; 8 John. R. 444; 3 John. Cas. 29; Cowp. 395; 6 T. R. 642; Harr. Dig. Sale, IV.; and the article Conditions Sale. Vide Harr. Dig. Sale, IV.; 13 Price, R. 76; M'Clel. R. 25; 6 East, R. 392; 5 B. & A. 257; S. C. 2 Stark. R. 295; 1 Esp. R. 340; 5 Esp. R. 103 4 Taunt. R. 209; 1 H. Bl. R. 81; 2 Chit. R. 253; Cowp. R. 395; 1 Bouv. Inst., n. 976.
Auctionary (a.) 拍賣的 Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. [R.]
With auctionary hammer in thy hand. -- Dryden.
Auctioneer (n.) 拍賣商 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.
Auctioneer (v. t.) 拍賣 To sell by auction; to auction.
Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away. -- Cowper.
Auctioneer (n.) An agent who conducts an auction.
Auctioneer (v.) Sell at an auction [syn: auction, auction off, auctioneer].
Auctioneer (n.), Contracts, commerce. A person authorized by law to sell the goods of others at public sale.
Auctioneer (n.) He is the agent of both parties, the seller and the buyer. 2 Taunt. 38, 209 4 Greenl. R. 1; Chit. Contr. 208.
Auctioneer (n.) His rights are, 1. to charge a commission for his services; 2. be has an interest in the goods sold coupled with the possession; 3. he has a lien for his commissions; 4. he may sue the buyer for the purchase-money.
Auctioneer (n.) He is liable, 1. to the owner for a faithful discharge of his duties in the sale, and if he gives credit without authority, for the value of the goods; 2. he is responsible for the duties due to the government; 3. he is answerable to the purchaser when he does not disclose the name of the principal; 4. be may be sued when he sells the goods of a third person, after notice not to sell them. Peake's Rep. 120; 2 Kent, Com. 423, 4; 4 John. Ch. R. 659; 3 Burr. R. 1921;.2 Taunt. R. 38; 1, Jac. & Walk. R. 350; 3 V. & B. 57; 13 Ves. R. 472; 1 Y. & J. R. 389; 5 Barn, & Ald. 333; 1 H. Bl. 81; 7 East, R. 558; 4 B. & Adolph. R. 443; 7 Taunt. 209; 3 Chit. Com. L. 210; Story on Ag. Sec. 27 2 Liv. Ag. 335 Cowp. 395; 6 T. R. 642; 6 John. 194; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t.
Auctioneer (n.) The man who proclaims with a hammer that he has picked a pocket with his tongue.
Aucupation (n.) Birdcatching; fowling. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Audacious (a.) 大膽的；無畏的；魯莽的；膽大妄為的，厚顏無恥的 Daring; spirited; adventurous.
As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides Audacious. -- Milton.
Audacious (a.) Contemning the restraints of law, religion, or decorum; bold in wickedness; presumptuous; impudent; insolent. "
Audacious traitor." -- Shak. " Such audacious neighborhood." -- Milton.
Audacious (a.) Committed with, or proceedings from, daring effrontery or contempt of law, morality, or decorum. "Audacious cruelty." "Audacious prate." -- Shak.
Audacious (a.) Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; "audacious explorers"; "fearless reporters and photographers"; "intrepid pioneers" [syn: audacious, brave, dauntless, fearless, hardy, intrepid, unfearing].
Audacious (a.) Unrestrained by convention or propriety; "an audacious trick to pull"; "a barefaced hypocrite"; "the most bodacious display of tourism this side of Anaheim"- Los Angeles Times; "bald-faced lies"; "brazen arrogance"; "the modern world with its quick material successes and insolent belief in the boundless possibilities of progress"- Bertrand Russell [syn: audacious, barefaced, bodacious, bald-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent].
Audacious (a.) Disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a venturesome investor"; "a venturous spirit" [syn: audacious, daring, venturesome, venturous].
Audaciously (adv.) 大膽地；無畏地；魯莽地；放肆地 In an audacious manner; with excess of boldness; impudently.
Audaciously (adv.) In an audacious manner; "an idea so daring and yet so audaciously tempting that a shiver of excitement quivered through him".
Audaciousness (n.) 大膽；無畏；魯莽；膽大妄為，厚顏無恥 The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity.
Audaciousness (n.) Fearless daring [syn: audacity, audaciousness, temerity].
Audaciousness (n.) Aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision" [syn: audacity, audaciousness].
Audacity (n.) 大膽，無畏 [U]；魯莽；膽大妄為，厚顏無恥 [U] Daring spirit, resolution, or confidence; venturesomeness.
The freedom and audacity necessary in the commerce of men. -- Tatler.
Audacity (n.) Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.
With the most arrogant audacity. -- Joye.
Audacity (n.) Fearless daring [syn: audacity, audaciousness, temerity].
Audacity (n.) Aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision" [syn: audacity, audaciousness].
Audibility (n.) 【物】可聞度；（聲音的）清晰度；聲強度 The quality of being audible; power of being heard; audible capacity.
Audibility (n.) Quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear [syn: audibility, audibleness] [ant: inaudibility, inaudibleness].
Audible (a.) 可聽見的，聽得見的 Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.
Audible (n.) That which may be heard. [Obs.]
Visibles are swiftlier carried to the sense than audibles. -- Bacon.
Audible (a.) Heard or perceptible by the ear; "he spoke in an audible whisper" [syn: audible, hearable] [ant: inaudible, unhearable].
Audible (n.) 【美】【橄】（在對陣爭球線上透過暗語進行的）改變打法 A football play is changed orally after both teams have assumed their positions at the line of scrimmage.
Audibleness (n.) The quality of being audible.
Audibleness (n.) Quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear [syn: audibility, audibleness] [ant: inaudibility, inaudibleness].
Audibly (adv.) 可聽見地，聽得見地 So as to be heard.
Audibly (adv.) In an audible manner; "he spoke audibly" [ant: inaudibly].
Audience (n.) 聽眾，觀眾；讀者群 [C] [G]；愛好者 [C] [G]；謁見；覲見 [C] The act of hearing; attention to sounds.
Thou, therefore, give due audience, and attend. -- Milton.
Audience (n.) Admittance to a hearing; a formal interview, esp. with a sovereign or the head of a government, for conference or the transaction of business.
According to the fair play of the world, Let me have audience: I am sent to speak. -- Shak.
Audience (n.) An auditory; an assembly of hearers. Also applied by authors to their readers.
Fit audience find, though few. -- Milton.
He drew his audience upward to the sky. -- Dryden.
Court of audience, or Audience court (Eng.), A court long since disused, belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury; also, one belonging to the Archbishop of York. -- Mozley & W.
In general (or open) Audience, publicly.
To give audience, To listen; to admit to an interview.
Audience (n.) A gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; "the audience applauded"; "someone in the audience began to cough".
Audience (n.) The part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment; "every artist needs an audience"; "the broadcast reached an audience of millions".
Audience (n.) An opportunity to state your case and be heard; "they condemned him without a hearing"; "he saw that he had lost his audience" [syn: hearing, audience].
Audience (n.) A conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king" [syn: consultation, audience, interview].
Audient (a.) 聽著的 Listening; paying attention; as, audient souls. -- Mrs. Browning.
Audient (n.) A hearer; especially a catechumen in the early church. [Obs.] -- Shelton.
Audiometer (n.) (Acous.) An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged and recorded on a scale.
Audiometer (n.) An instrument used to measure the sensitivity of hearing [syn: audiometer, sonometer].
Audiphone (n.) 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 (v. t.) (v. i. & v. t.) 審核；查帳；【美】以旁聽生資格出席；旁聽 To examine and adjust, as an account or accounts; as, to audit the accounts of a treasure, or of parties who have a suit depending in court.
Audit (v. i.) To settle or adjust an account.
Let Hocus audit; he knows how the money was disbursed.-- Arbuthnot.
Audit (n.) 審計；查帳；決算 An audience; a hearing. [Obs.]
He appeals to a high audit. -- Milton.
Audit (n.) An examination in general; a judicial examination.
Note: Specifically: An examination of an account or of accounts, with the hearing of the parties concerned, by proper officers, or persons appointed for that purpose, who compare the charges with the vouchers, examine witnesses, and state the result.
Audit (n.) The result of such an examination, or an account as adjusted by auditors; final account.
Yet I can make my audit up. -- Shak.
Audit (n.) A general receptacle or receiver. [Obs.]
It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. -- Jer. Taylor.
Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit.
Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.
Audit (n.) An inspection of the accounting procedures and records by a trained accountant or CPA [syn: audited account, audit].
Audit (n.) A methodical examination or review of a condition or situation; "he made an audit of all the plants on his property"; "an energy efficiency audit"; "an email log audit".
Audit (v.) Examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification; "audit accounts and tax returns" [syn: audit, scrutinize, scrutinise, inspect].
Audit (v.) Attend academic courses without getting credit.
Audited (imp. & p. p.) of Audit.
Auditing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Audit.
Audita querela () (Law) 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 judgment. -- Wharton.
Audition (n.) 聽；聽覺；聽力；（演員等發聲的）試聽 The act of hearing or listening; hearing.
Audition may be active or passive; hence the difference between listening and simple hearing. -- Dunglison.
Audition (n.) The ability to hear; the auditory faculty; "his hearing was impaired" [syn: hearing, audition, auditory sense, sense of hearing, auditory modality].
Audition (n.) A test of the suitability of a performer [syn: audition, tryout].
Audition (v.) (v. i & v. t.)（作）試聽Perform in order to get a role; "She auditioned for a role on Broadway" [syn: audition, try out].
Auditive (a.) 耳朵的；聽覺的 Of or pertaining to hearing; auditory. [R.] -- Cotgrave.
Auditive (a.) Of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive].
Auditor (n.) [C] 查帳員，稽核員，審計員；【美】（大學）旁聽生；聽者；聽眾之一 A hearer or listener. -- Macaulay.
Auditor (n.) A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.
Auditor (n.) One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.
Note: In the United States government, and in the State governments, there are auditors of the treasury and of the public accounts. The name is also applied to persons employed to check the accounts of courts, corporations, companies, societies, and partnerships.
Auditor (n.) Someone who listens attentively [syn: hearer, listener, auditor, attender].
Auditor (n.) A student who attends a course but does not take it for Credit.
Auditor (n.) A qualified accountant who inspects the accounting records and practices of a business or other organization.
Auditorial (a.) Auditory. [R.]
Auditorial (a.) 查帳的；稽查（員）的 Of or relating to an audit or an auditor of accounts.
Auditorium (n.) [C] 聽眾席；觀眾席；會堂，禮堂 The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.
Note: In ancient churches the auditorium was the nave, where hearers stood to be instructed; in monasteries it was an apartment for the reception of strangers.
Auditorium (n.) A building, or a room within a building, containing a large open space for public gatherings, and often having a raised stage where speakers or presentations may be easily viewed by the audience. The students assembled to hear the president speak in the auditorium.
Auditorium (n.) The area of a theater or concert hall where the audience sits.
Auditorship (n.) 審計員之職位 The office or function of auditor.
Auditory (a.) 耳朵的；聽覺的；聽到的 Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.
Auditory canal (Anat.), 耳道；吸道；聽道；聽管 The tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.
Auditory (n.) 聽眾；禮堂，講堂，聽眾席 An assembly of hearers; an audience.
Auditory (n.) An auditorium. -- Udall.
Auditory (a.) Of or relating to the process of hearing; "auditory processing"; "an audile person" [syn: auditory, audile, auditive].
Auditress (n.) A female hearer. -- Milton.
Auditual (a.) Auditory.
Auf (n.) A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.
Au fait () Expert; skillful; well instructed.
Augean (a.) 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.
Augean (a.) Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.
Auger (n.) 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.
Auger (n.) 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.
Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied.
Aught (n.) Alt. of Aucht
Aucht (n.) Property; possession. [Scot.] -- Sir W. Scott.
Aught (n.) Anything; any part. [Also written ought.]
There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. -- Josh. xxi. 45
But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. -- Addison.
Aught (adv.) At all; in any degree. -- Chaucer.
Aught (n.) A quantity of no importance; "it looked like nothing I had ever seen before"; "reduced to nil all the work we had done"; "we racked up a pathetic goose egg"; "it was all for naught"; "I didn't hear zilch about it" [syn: nothing, nil, nix, nada, null, aught, cipher, cypher, goose egg, naught, zero, zilch, zip, zippo].
Augite (n.) 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.
Augite (n.) Dark-green to black glassy mineral of the pyroxene group containing large amounts of aluminum and iron and magnesium.
Augitic (a.) Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.
Augitic (a.) Of or relating to or containing the mineral augite.
Augmented (imp. & p. p.) of Augment.
Augmenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Augment.
Augment (v. t.) 擴大；增加；加強；提高；【語】在……上增音 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.
But their spite still serves His glory to augment. -- Milton.
Augment (v. t.) (Gram.) To add an augment to.
Augment (v. i.) 擴大；增加 To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.
Augment (n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.
Augment (n.) (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.
Note: In Greek, the syllabic augment is a prefixed ?, forming an intial syllable; the temporal augment is an increase of the quantity (time) of an initial vowel, as by changing ? to ?.
Augment (v.) Enlarge or increase; "The recent speech of the president augmented tensions in the Near East".
Augment (v.) Grow or intensify; "The pressure augmented".
Augmentable (a.) 可增大的；可擴張的 Capable of augmentation. -- Walsh.
Augmentation (n.) 擴大，增加；增大；增加物 The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
Augmentation (n.) The state of being augmented; enlargement.
Augmentation (n.) The thing added by way of enlargement.
Augmentation (n.) (Her.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor. -- Cussans.
Augmentation (n.) (Med.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.
Augmentation (n.) (Mus.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length.
{Augmentation court} (Eng. Hist.), A court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment the revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. -- Encyc. Brit.
Syn: Increase; enlargement; growth; extension; accession; addition.
Augmentation (n.) The amount by which something increases.
Augmentation (n.) The statement of a theme in notes of greater duration (usually twice the length of the original) [ant: {diminution}].
Augmentation (n.) The act of augmenting.
Augmentative (n.) (Gram.) 【語】擴大語 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. -- Gibbs.
Augmentative (a.) 增加的；【語】擴大的 Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. -- Aug*ment"a*tive*ly, adv.
Augmentative (a.) Increasing or having the power to increase especially in size or amount or degree; "`up' is an augmentative word in `hurry up'".
Augmentative (a.) Intensifying by augmentation and enhancement [syn: {augmentative}, {enhancive}].
Augmenter (n.) One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.
Augrim (n.) See Algorism. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration.
Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. -- Chaucer.
Augur (n.) [C] (Rom. Antiq.) （古羅馬的）占兆官；占卜師；預言者 An official diviner who foretold events by the singing, chattering, flight, and feeding of birds, or by signs or omens derived from celestial phenomena, certain appearances of quadrupeds, or unusual occurrences.
Compare: Diviner
Diviner (n.) 先知；有先見之明的人；算卦的人；預言者； divine的形容詞比較級 A person who practices divination : Soothsayer.
Diviner (n.) A person who divines the location of water or minerals.
Compare: Soothsayer
Soothsayer (n.) 預言者；占卜者；算命者 A person supposed to be able to foresee the future.
Augur (n.) One who foretells events by omens; a soothsayer; a diviner; a prophet.
Augur of ill, whose tongue was never found Without a priestly curse or boding sound. -- Dryden.
Augured (imp. & p. p.) of Augur.
Auguring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Augur.