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  • English Word Aulic Definition Pertaining to a royal court.
  • English Word Aulic Definition The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).
  • English Word Auln Definition An ell. [Obs.] See Aune.
  • English Word Aulnage Definition Alt. of Aulnager
  • English Word Aulnager Definition See Alnage and Alnager.
  • English Word Aum Definition Same as Aam.
  • English Word Aumail Definition To figure or variegate.
  • English Word Aumbry Definition Same as Ambry.
  • English Word Aumery Definition A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.
  • English Word Auncel Definition A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England.
  • English Word Auncetry Definition Ancestry.
  • English Word Aune Definition A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter.
  • English Word Aunt Definition The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
  • English Word Aunt Definition An old woman; and old gossip.
  • English Word Aunt Definition A bawd, or a prostitute.
  • English Word Aunter Definition Alt. of Auntre
  • English Word Auntie Definition Alt. of Aunty
  • English Word Auntre Definition To venture; to dare.
  • English Word Auntrous Definition Adventurous.
  • English Word Auntter Definition Adventure; hap.
  • English Word Aunty Definition A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.
  • English Word Aura Definition Any subtile, invisible emanation, effluvium, or exhalation from a substance, as the aroma of flowers, the odor of the blood, a supposed fertilizing emanation from the pollen of flowers, etc.
  • English Word Aura Definition The peculiar sensation, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics.
  • English Word Aurae Definition of Aura
  • English Word Aural Definition Of or pertaining to the air, or to an aura.
  • English Word Aural Definition Of or pertaining to the ear; as, aural medicine and surgery.
  • English Word Aurantiaceous Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, the Aurantiaceae, an order of plants (formerly considered natural), of which the orange is the type.
  • English Word Aurate Definition A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.
  • English Word Aurated Definition Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.
  • English Word Aurated Definition Combined with auric acid.