Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 110
Auriculate (a.) Alt. of Auriculated
Auriculated (a.) (Biol.) Having ears or appendages like ears; eared. Esp.:
Auriculated (a.) (Bot.) Having lobes or appendages like the ear; shaped like the ear; auricled.
Auriculated (a.) (Zool.) Having an angular projection on one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc.
Auriculate leaf, One having small appended leaves or lobes on each side of its petiole or base.
Auriculated (a.) Having auricles [syn: auriculate, auriculated].
Auriferous (a.) Gold-bearing; containing or producing gold.
Whence many a bursting stream auriferous plays. -- Thomson.
Auriferous pyrites, Iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.
Auriferous (a.) Containing gold; "auriferous quartz veins" [syn: auriferous, gold-bearing].
Auriflamme (n.) See Oriflamme.
Auriform (a.) Having the form of the human ear; ear-shaped.
Auriform (a.) Having a shape resembling an ear [syn: auriform, ear-shaped, ear-like].
Auriga (n.) (Anat.) The Charioteer, or Wagoner, a constellation in the northern hemisphere, situated between Perseus and Gemini. It contains the bright star Capella.
Auriga (n.) A conspicuous constellation in the northern hemisphere; between Great Bear and Orion at edge of Milky Way [syn: Auriga, Charioteer].
Aurigal (a.) Of or pertaining to a chariot. [R.]
Aurigation (n.) The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [R.] -- De Quincey.
Aurigraphy (n.) The art of writing with or in gold.
Aurin (n.) (Chem.) A red coloring matter derived from phenol; -- called also, in commerce, yellow corallin.
Auriphrygiate (a.) Embroidered or decorated with gold. [R.] -- Southey.
Compare: Orpiment
Orpiment (n.) (Chem.) Arsenic sesquisulphide, produced artificially as an amorphous lemon-yellow powder, and occurring naturally as a yellow crystalline mineral; -- formerly called auripigment. It is used in king's yellow, in white Indian fire, and in certai technical processes, as indigo printing.
Our orpiment and sublimed mercurie. -- Chaucer.
Red orpiment, Realgar; the red sulphide of arsenic.
Yellow orpiment, King's yellow.
Auripigment (n.) See Orpiment. [Obs.]
Auriscalp (n.) An earpick.
Auriscope (n.) (Med.) An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
Auriscope (n.) Medical instrument consisting of a magnifying lens and light; used for examining the external ear (the auditory meatus and especially the tympanic membrane) [syn: otoscope, auriscope, auroscope].
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.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) （一種原產於北非、歐洲及西亞，現已絕種之）古代野牛；現代歐洲野牛 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.
Aurochs (n.) European bison having a smaller and higher head than the North American bison [syn: {wisent}, {aurochs}, {Bison bonasus}].
Aurochs (n.) Large recently extinct long-horned European wild ox; considered one of the ancestors of domestic cattle [syn: {aurochs}, {urus}, {Bos primigenius}].
Aurocyanide (n.) A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.
Auroras (n. pl. ) of Aurora
Aurorae (n. pl. ) of Aurora
Aurora (n.) 曙光 [C]；極光 [C] 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. -- Hawthorne.
Aurora (n.) (Class. Myth.) 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.) (Bot.) A species of crowfoot. -- Johnson.
Aurora (n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).
Aurora borealis, i. e., Northern daybreak; popularly called northern lights. A luminous meteoric phenomenon, visible only at night, and supposed to be of electrical origin. This species of light usually appears in streams, ascending toward the zenith from a dusky line or bank, a few degrees above the northern horizon; when reaching south beyond the zenith, it forms what is called the corona, about a spot in the heavens toward which the dipping needle points. Occasionally the aurora appears as an arch of light across the heavens from east to west. Sometimes it assumes a wavy appearance, and the streams of light are then called merry dancers. They assume a variety of colors, from a pale red or yellow to a deep red or blood color. The
Aurora australis, Is a corresponding phenomenon in the southern hemisphere, the streams of light ascending in the same manner from near the southern horizon.
Aurora (n.) The first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset].
Aurora (n.) An atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force.
Aurora (n.) (Roman mythology) Goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos.
Auroral (a.) 曙光的；極光的；光亮的；光輝的；玫瑰紅的 Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy.
Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. -- Longfellow.
Auroral (a.) Of or relating to the atmospheric phenomenon auroras; "a prominent green line in the spectrum of the auroras is called the `auroral line'".
Auroral (a.) Characteristic of the dawn; "a dim auroral glow" [syn: auroral, aurorean].
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 (n. pl. ) of Auspice
Auspice (n.) 預兆；吉兆 [C]；（以飛鳥行動為根據的）占卜；贊助；支持；主辦 [P] 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 (n.) Protection; patronage and care; guidance.
Which by his auspice they will nobler make. -- Dryden.
Note: In this sense the word is generally plural, auspices; as, under the auspices of the king.
Auspices (n.) 援助；贊助；保護；主辦 Kindly endorsement and guidance; "the tournament was held under the auspices of the city council" [syn: auspices, protection, aegis].
Auspicial (a.) 占卜的, 幸運的 Of or pertaining to auspices; auspicious. [R.]
Auspicious (a.) 吉兆的；吉利的；興盛的；幸運的 Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.
Auspicious union of order and freedom. -- Macaulay.
Auspicious (a.) Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. "Auspicious chief." -- Dryden.
Auspicious (a.) Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things. "Thy auspicious mistress." -- Shak. "Auspicious gales." -- Pope.
Syn: See Propitious. -- Aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Aus*pi"cious*ness, n.
Auspicious (a.) Auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign" [ant: inauspicious, unfortunate].
Auster (n.) 【詩】南風 The south wind. -- Pope.
Austere (a.) 嚴厲的，嚴峻的，嚴格的；禁慾的；苦行的，簡樸的；樸素的，無裝飾的 Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
Austere (a.) Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose. -- Dryden.
Austere (a.) Unadorned; unembellished; severely simple.
Syn: Harsh; sour; rough; rigid; stern; severe; rigorous; strict.
Austere (a.) Severely simple; "a stark interior" [syn: austere, severe, stark, stern].
Austere (a.) Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face" [syn: austere, stern].
Austere (a.) Practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence" [syn: ascetic, ascetical, austere, spartan].
Austere (a.) 簡樸的；艱苦的；樸素的，無裝飾的；嚴峻的，嚴厲的 Very simple and without comfort or unnecessary things, especially because of severe limits on money or goods.
// An austere childhood during the war.
Austere (a.) 不加修飾的 Plain and without decoration.
// The courtroom was a large, dark chamber, an austere place.
Austere (a.) 嚴厲的；嚴格的 Very severe and unfriendly in manner.
// He was a tall, austere, forbidding figure.
Austerely (adv.) 嚴肅地；嚴正地；嚴格地；嚴峻地；樸素地；簡樸地 Severely; rigidly; sternly.
A doctrine austerely logical. -- Macaulay.
Austereness (n.) 嚴肅；嚴厲；樸素；苦澀 Harshness or astringent sourness to the taste; acerbity. -- Johnson.
Austereness (n.) Severity; strictness; austerity. -- Shak.
Austerities (n. 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.) 風占卜 Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds.
Compare: Soothsaying
Sothsaying (n.) 占卜；預言；Soothsay的動詞現在分詞、動名詞 See Soothsayer.
Soothsayer (n.) 預言者；占卜者；算命者 A person supposed to be able to foresee the future.
Autarchy (n.) Self-sufficiency, especially economic self-sufficiency as applied to nations. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Autarchy (n.) Same as autarky.
Syn: Autarky. Autarkic
Compare: Autarky
Autarky (n.) [U] (Specialized) 經濟的自給自足；經濟自立政策；閉關自守；自給自足的地區（或國家） Economic independence.
// In practice Germany under Hitler never achieved autarky and depended on the import of oil.
Autarchy (n.) Another term for Autocracy.
Autarchy (n.) Variant spelling of Autarky.
Compare: Autocracy
Autocracy (n.) (Also Autarchy) (Specialized) [ U ] 獨裁統治；獨裁政體；獨裁；專制 Government by a single person or small group that has unlimited power or authority, or the power or authority of such a person or group.
Autocracy (n.) [ C ] 獨裁國家；專制國家 A country or society that has this form of government.
Authentic (a.) 可信的，真實的，可靠的；真正的，非假冒的 [Z]；（依法）有效的，手續齊備的 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.
To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire. -- Milton.
Authentic (a.) Authoritative. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Authentic (a.) Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information.
Authentic (a.) (Law) Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested.
Authentic (a.) (Mus.) 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.
Syn: Authentic, Genuine.
Usage: These words, as here compared, have reference to historical documents. We call a document genuine when it can be traced back ultimately to the author or authors from whom it professes to emanate. Hence, the word has the meaning, "not changed from the original, uncorrupted, unadulterated:" as, a genuine text. We call a document authentic when, on the ground of its being thus traced back, it may be relied on as true and authoritative (from the primary sense of "having an author, vouched for"); hence its extended signification, in general literature, of trustworthy, as resting on unquestionable authority or evidence; as, an authentic history; an authentic report of facts.
A genuine book is that which was written by the person whose name it bears, as the author of it. An authentic book is that which relates matters of fact as they really happened. A book may be genuine without being, authentic, and a book may be authentic without being genuine. -- Bp. Watson.
Note: It may be said, however, that some writers use authentic (as, an authentic document) in the sense of "produced by its professed author, not counterfeit."
Authentic (n.) An original (book or document). [Obs.] "Authentics and transcripts." -- Fuller.
Authentic (a.) Conforming to fact and therefore worthy of belief; "an authentic account by an eyewitness"; "reliable information" [syn: authentic, reliable].
Authentic (a.) Not counterfeit or copied; "an authentic signature"; "a bona fide manuscript"; "an unquestionable antique"; "photographs taken in a veritable bull ring" [syn: authentic, bona fide, unquestionable, veritable].
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.) 證明……是真實的；鑑定；使生效 To render authentic; to give authority to, by the proof, attestation, or formalities required by law, or sufficient to entitle to credit.
The king serves only as a notary to authenticate the choice of judges. -- Burke.
Authenticate (v. t.) To prove authentic; to determine as real and true; as, to authenticate a portrait. -- Walpole.
Authenticate (v.) Establish the authenticity of something.
Authentication (n.) 確證；證明；證實；鑑定 A mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity.
Syn: hallmark, assay-mark.
Authentication (n.) Validating the authenticity of something or someone.
Syn: certification.
Authentication (n.) A mark on an article of trade to indicate its origin and authenticity [syn: authentication, hallmark, assay-mark].
Authentication (n.) Validating the authenticity of something or someone [syn: authentication, certification].
Authentication, () The verification of the identity of a person or process. In a communication system, authentication verifies that messages really come from their stated source, like the signature on a (paper) letter. The most common form of authentication is typing a user name (which may be widely known or easily guessable) and a corresponding password that is presumed to be known only to the individual being authenticated. Another form of authentication is biometrics. (2007-02-22)
Authenticator (n.) One who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity [syn: appraiser, authenticator].
Authenticity (n.) 可信賴性；確實（性）；【口】誠實 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.
Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity, authenticity is often restricted in its use to the first of the above meanings, and distinguished from qenuineness.
Authenticity (n.) Undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy].
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.) [C] 作者；作家； （作家的）著作；創始人，創辦者 The beginner, former, or first mover of anything; hence, the efficient cause of a thing; a creator; an originator.
Eternal King; thee, Author of all being. -- Milton.
Author (n.) One who composes or writes a book; a composer, as distinguished from an editor, translator, or compiler.
The chief glory of every people arises from its authors. -- Johnson.
Author (n.) The editor of a periodical. [Obs.]
Author (n.) An informant. [Archaic] -- Chaucer.
Author (v. t.) 【美】 開創，發起；著作，編寫 To occasion; to originate.
Author (v. t.) To tell; to say; to declare.
Authoress (n.) A female author.
Authorial (a.) 作者的；作家的 Of or pertaining to an author.