Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages). Noah Webster

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СКАЧАТЬ Au¶toÏthe·ist, n. One given to selfÐworship. [R.]

       Au¶toÏtype (?), n. [AutoÏ + Ïtype: cf. F. autotype.] 1. A facsimile.

       2. A photographic picture produced in sensitized pigmented gelatin by exposure to light under a negative; and subsequent washing out of the soluble parts; a kind of picture in ink from a gelatin plate.

       Au·toÏtyÏpog¶raÏphy (?), n. [AutoÏ + typography.] A process resembling ½nature printing,¸ by which drawings executed on gelatin are impressed into a soft metal plate, from which the printing is done as from copperplate.

       AuÏtot¶yÏpy (?), n. The art or process of making autotypes.

       Au¶tumn (?), n. [L. auctumnus, autumnus, perh. fr. a root av to satisfy one's self: cf. F. automne. See Avarice.] 1. The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called ½the fall.¸ Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September 23, and ends at the winter solstice, about December 23; but in popular language, autumn, in America, comprises September, October, and November.

       µ In England, according to Johnson, autumn popularly comprises August, September, and October. In the southern hemisphere, the autumn corresponds to our spring.

       2. The harvest or fruits of autumn.

       Milton.

       3. The time of maturity or decline; latter portion; third stage.

       Dr. Preston was now entering into the autumn of the duke's favor.

       Fuller.

       Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge.

       Wordsworth.

       AuÏtum¶nal (?), a. [L. auctumnalis, autumnalis: cf. F. automnal.] 1. Of, belonging to, or peculiar to, autumn; as, an autumnal tint; produced or gathered in autumn; as, autumnal fruits; flowering in autumn; as, an autumnal plant.

       Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks

       In Vallombrosa.

       Milton.

       2. Past the middle of life; in the third stage.

       An autumnal matron.

       Hawthorne.

       Autumnal equinox, the time when the sun crosses the equator, as it proceeds southward, or when it passes the ~ point. Ð ÷ point, the point of the equator intersected by the ecliptic, as the sun proceeds southward; the first point of Libra. Ð ÷ signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.

       Aux·aÏnom¶eÏter (?), n. [Gr. ? to cause to increase + Ïmeter.] An instrument to measure the growth of plants.

       Goodale.

       Ø AuxÏe¶sis (?), n. [NL., Gr. ? increase, fr. ?, ?, to increase.] (Rhet.) A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

       AuxÏet¶ic (?), a. [Gr. ?.] Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.

       AuxÏil¶iar (?; 106), a. [L. auxiliaris: cf. F. auxiliaire. See Auxiliary.] Auxiliary. [Archaic]

       The auxiliar troops and Trojan hosts appear.

       Pope.

       AuxÏil¶iar, n. An auxiliary. [Archaic]

       Milton.

       AuxÏil¶iarÏly, adv. By way of help.

       Harris.

       AuxÏil¶iaÏry (?; 106), a. [L. auxiliarius, fr. auxilium help, aid, fr. augere to increase.] Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.

       ÷ scales (Mus.), the scales of relative or attendant keys. See under Attendant, a. Ð ÷ verbs (Gram.). See Auxiliary, n., 3.

       AuxÏil¶iaÏry, n.; pl. Auxiliaries (?). 1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action or enterprise.

       2. (Mil.) pl. Foreign troops in the service of a nation at war; (rarely in sing.), a member of the allied or subsidiary force.

       3. (Gram.) A verb which helps to form the voices, modes, and tenses of other verbs; Ð called, also, an auxiliary verb; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall, and will, in English; ˆtre and avoir, in French; avere and essere, in Italian; estar and haber, in Spanish.

       4. (Math.) A quantity introduced for the purpose of simplifying or facilitating some operation, as in equations or trigonometrical formul‘.

       Math. Dict.

       AuxÏil¶iaÏtoÏry (?), a. Auxiliary; helping. [Obs.]

       Ø A¶va (?), n. Same as Kava.

       Johnston.

       Av·aÏdaÏvat¶ (?), n. Same as Amadavat.

       AÏvail¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Availed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Availing.] [OE. availen, fr. F. ? (L. ad) + valoir to be worth, fr. L. valere to be strong, to be worth. See Valiant.] 1. To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

       O, what avails me now that honor high !

       Milton.

       2. To promote; to assist. [Obs.]

       Pope.

       To avail one's self of, to make use of; take advantage of.

       Then shall they seek to avail themselves of names.

       Milton.

       I have availed myself of the very first opportunity.

       Dickens.

       AÏvail¶, v. i. To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. ½What signs avail ?¸

       Milton.

       Words avail very little with me, young man.

       Sir W. Scott.

       AÏvail¶ (?), n. 1. Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.

       The avail of a deathbed repentance.

       Jer. Taylor.

       2. pl. Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

       The avails of their own industry.

       Stoddard.

       Syn. - Use; benefit; utility; profit; service.

       AÏvail¶, v. t. & i. See Avale, v. [Obs.]

       Spenser.

       AÏvail·aÏbil¶iÏty (?), n.; pl. Availabilities (?). 1. The quality of being СКАЧАТЬ