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

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       Aught (?), Aucht (?), n. [AS. ?ht, fr. ¾gan to own, p. p. ¾hte.] Property; possession. [Scot.]

       Sir W. Scott.

       Aught (?), n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. ¾wiht,¾ ever + wiht. ?136. See Aye ever, and Whit, Wight.] 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.

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      Aught (?), adv. At all; in any degree.

       Chaucer.

       Au¶gite (?), n. [L. augites, Gr. ?, fr. ? brightness: cf. F. augite.] A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; Ð also used instead of the general term pyroxene.

       AuÏgit¶ic (?), a. Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks.

       AugÏment¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Augmented; p. pr. & vb. n. Augmenting.] [L. augmentare, fr. augmentum an increase, fr. augere to increase; perh. akin to Gr. ?, ?, E. wax, v., and eke, v.: cf. F. augmenter.] 1. To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by re‰forcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.

       But their spite still serves

       His glory to augment.

       Milton.

       2. (Gram.) To add an ~ to.

       AugÏment¶, v. i. To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

       Aug¶ment (?), n. [L. augmentum: cf. F. augment.] 1. Enlargement by addition; increase.

       2. (Gram.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

       µ 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 ?.

       AugÏment¶aÏble (?), a. Capable of augmentation.

       Walsh.

       Aug·menÏta¶tion (?), n. [LL. augmentatio: cf. F. augmentation.] 1. The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.

       2. The state of being augmented; enlargement.

       3. The thing added by way of enlargement.

       4. (Her.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor.

       Cussans.

       5. (Med.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.

       Dunglison.

       6. (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 to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved.

       Encyc. Brit.

       Syn. - Increase; enlargement; growth; extension; accession; addition.

       AugÏment¶aÏtive (?), a. [Cf. F. augmentatif.] Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation. Ð AugÏment¶aÏtiveÏly, adv.

       AugÏment¶aÏtive, n. (Gram.) 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.

       AugÏment¶er (?), n. One who, or that which, augments or increases anything.

       Au¶grim (?), n. See Algorism. [Obs.]

       Chaucer.

       ÷ stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration. Ð Noumbres of ~, Arabic numerals.

       Chaucer.

       Au¶gur (?), n. [L. Of uncertain origin: the first part of the word is perh. fr. L. avis bird, and the last syllable, gur, equiv. to the Skr. gar to call, akin to L. garrulus garrulous.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) 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.

       2. 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.

       Au¶gur, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Augured (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Auguring.] 1. To conjecture from signs or omens; to prognosticate; to foreshow.

       My auguring mind assures the same success.

       Dryden.

       2. To anticipate, to foretell, or to indicate a favorable or an unfavorable issue; as, to augur well or ill.

       Au¶gur, v. t. To predict or foretell, as from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer.

       It seems to augur genius.

       Sir W. Scott.

       I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with.

       J. F. W. Herschel.

       Syn. - To predict; forebode; betoken; portend; presage; prognosticate; prophesy; forewarn.

       Au¶guÏral (?), a. [L. auguralis.] Of or pertaining to augurs or to augury; betokening; ominous; significant; as, an augural staff; augural books. ½Portents augural.¸

       Cowper.

       Au¶guÏrate (?), v. t. & i. [L. auguratus, p. p. of augurari to augur.] To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.]

       C. Middleton.

       Au¶guÏrate (?), n. The office of an augur.

       Merivale.

       Au·guÏra¶tion (?), n. [L. auguratio.] The practice of augury.

       Au¶gurÏer (?), n. An augur. [Obs.]

       Shak.

       AuÏgu¶riÏal (?), a. [L. augurialis.] Relating to augurs or to augury.

       Sir T. Browne.

       Au¶guÏrist (?), n. An augur. [R.]

       An¶gurÏize (?), v. t. To augur. [Obs.]

       Blount.

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