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Show Grant the glad omen; let thy fav'rite rif Propitious, ever foaring from the right. - Prior Yo A'GcUr. w.m [from angur.] To guefs to conjeture by figns The people love me, and the fea is mine My pow'r 's a crefcent, and my aug'ring hop Says it will come to the full Shakefpeare My aug'ring mind affures the fame fuccefs Dryden To A'UGURATE. w. n. [auguror, Lat.] T judge by augaury Aucvwvra'rion. z /. [from azgur.] Th pradtice of augury, or of foretelling b events and prodigies Claudiu Pulche underwen th like fuccefs when he continued the tripudiary augurations Browun's Vulgar Erroyrs A'vcurEer. z [ [from augur.] The fam with augur Sbal:q/}) Avcu'riav.ad). [from augury.] Relatin to augury On this foundation were built the conclufion of foothfayers, in their augurial and tripudiary divinations Brown [from augur.] T practife divination by augury Dia Av'curovus. adj. [from augur.] Predi&ing ; prefcient; foreboding So fear' The fair-man'd horfes, that they flew back their chariots turn'd an Prefaging in their augurous hearts the labours tha they mourn'd Chapman's Iliad A'veury. n /i [augurium, Lat. 1. The a& of prognofticating by omen or prodigies Thy face and thy behaviour Which, if my axgury deceive me not ‘Witnefs good breeding Shakefpeare "The winds are chang'd, your friends from danger free Or I renounce my {kill in augury She knew, by augwry divine Dryd. Zneid Venus would fail in the defign < Swift 2. An omen or predition What if this death, which is for him defign'd Had been your doom (far be that augury!) And you, not Aurengzebe, condemn' to die The pow'rs we both invok Dryden To you, and yours, and mine, propitious be And firm our purpofe with an augury adj. {augufus Lat. Dryden Great grand ; royal ; magnificent ; awful There is nothing fo contemptible, but antiquit <an render it azguft and excellent. Glanw. Scepfis The Trojan chief appear'd in open fight Auguft in vifage, and ferenely bright His mother goddefs, with her hands divine Had form'd his curling locks, and made his temples fhine Dryden A'veust. n [ [Augufus, Lat.] Th name of the eighth month from Januar inclufive Auguft was dedicated to the honour of Auguftu Cefar, becaufe in the fame month he was create conful, thrice triumpher in Rome, fubdued Egyp to the Roma empire and made an en of civi wars ; being before called Sextilis, or the fixt from March Peacham Avcu'sTNESS. 7. [ [from auguft.] Elevation of look; dignity; loftinefs of mie or afpec Aviary n Avi'pity Lat. n. f. [avidité, Fr..aviditas Greedinefs; eagernefs; appetite infatiable defire A'virous. adj. [avitus, Lat. man's anceftors; ancient To Avi'ze. @. a. [avifer out of ufe. 1. To counfel Left by Dié Fr. A wor With that, the hufbandman 'gan him avize Spenfer "That it for him was fitteft exercife 2. With a reciprocal pronoun, to bethin himfelf: sawifer, Fr he that dreadful dee Forbore, and rather chofe, with fcornful fhame And the perfuafion of his awgurers May hold him from the capitol to-day Zo A'vGuRrISE. v. 7 the Ttalians beflow vaft expence; including grea o g o e t e t b o e r v feope of groun a o f m t m { a r t w i n height, r nexed, to conternper the air in the winter f f fl t c fl ' o t W Look now to your awizry; for}no'w the b;'ru‘ a _ l K ' y e E r h a f e t o grow-fi But him awizing Thefe apparent prodigies Avcvu'st V ~As T and mine confult thy augur AV [from avis, Lat. a bird. A place inclofed to keep birds in n guiaties of wirey to keep birds of all fosis Him to avenge Spenfer 3. To confider; to examine Spenfer A'ukxwarD See AWKWARD AvLp. adj. [alb, Sax.] A word now ob{olete; but ftill ufed in the Scotch dia leé&t *'T'is pride that pulls the country down Then take thine au/d cloak about thee Shakefpeare's Othello AvLe'Tick, adj [4uads.] Belonging t pipes Dis A'uvrick. adj.[aulicus, Lat.]Belongin t the court Aviw. . f. [aulne, Fr.] A French mea{ure of length ; an ell 7o Auma'iL. @. a. [from maille, Fr. th mefh of a net ; whence a coat of aumail a coat with network of iron.] To variegate; to figure. Upron explains it, t enamel In golden bufkins of coftly cordwaine All hard with golden bendes, which were entail' With curious anticks, and full fair dumail'd Fair Queen Au'mBRY AUNT See AmEryY . [. [tante, Fr. amita, Lat.] A fa ther or mother' nephew or niece fifter ; correlativ t Who meets us here ? my niece Plantagenet Led in the hand of her kind aunt of Glo'fter Shake[peare She went to plain work, and to purling brooks Old-fathion'd halls, dull aunts, and croaking rooks Pape 4AV0CA'DO . f. [Span. perfica, Lat. The name of a tree that grows in grea plenty in the Spanith Weft Indies The fruit is of itfelf very infipid, for whic reafon they generally eat it with the Jjuice of lemons and fugar, to give it a poignancy. Miller 70 AAVOCATE «. a. [awsco Lat. call off from bufinefs ; to call away T Their divefture of mortality difpenfe the from thofe laborious and awvocating dutie to diftreffed Chriftians, and their fecular r lations which are here requifite Avoca'Tion. #. / [from avocate. 1. The a& of calling afide Th buftle of bufine(s e y D t i e d impulfes to duty, and powesfa] gy, mgi'b%g fin 2. 'The bufinefs that calls ; or the ca];f%fl"{" {fummons away It is a fubje that we'ma in its contemplatio mak within };:he tim:f n':fiagrg,g'g ordinary time of ife, and with the pormigin may erfiploy o Mho neceflary ar.uocatiam, a ma contemplation Hal?'s Origin of Mdfll'ifld By the fecular cares and awocatisng which g0 company marriage, the clergy haye beenfumii?]? with fkill in common life Atterty To AVO'ID. v. a. [vuider, Br.] 1. To fhun ; to decline L The wifdom of pleafing God, by doin wh commands, and zvoiding what he fcibid:.gTwi}/l[:,tj;; 2. To efcape ; as, he avoided the blo turning afide 3. To endeavour to fhun 2usid coft 4 The fathion of the world is £ Sbakg@m" 4. To evacuate ; to quit Fairy Queen And antique regifters for to awize cations of bufinefs have caufed him to 'fmfi you encounter it No power he had to ftir, nor will to nfc_ That when the careful knight *gan well avize He lightly left the foe As they gan his library to view Stir up that remembrance which hi Boyle the awocations of ou fenfes, and the din of a clamorous world, are i pediments,Glanville What have you to do here, fellow? pray yo awoid the houfe 35,,‘1,9/"1""" If any rebel fhould be required of the princ confederate, the prince confederate thould con mand him to awoid the country He defired to fpeak with fome few of ys whereupon fix of us only ftayed, and the reft 4 woided the room Bac 5. To emit ; to throw out A toad contains not thofe urinary parts whic are found in other animals to awsid that ferou excretion Brown's Vulgar Brroys 6. To oppofe ; to hinder effet Th removing that which caufed putrefaction doth prevent and awoid putrefactions 7. Tovacate; to annul Buo How can thefe grants of the king's be ausidd without wronging of thofe lords which had thef lands and lordthips given them Spenfer 7o Avo'1ip. @. 7 1. To retire And Saul caft the javelin ; for he faid I wil {mite David even to the wall with it: and Davi awoided out of his prefence twice z. T'o becom 1 8a void or vacant Bithopricks are not included under benefices fo that if a perfon takes a bifhoprick, it doesno awoid by force of that law of pluralities but b the ancient common law A Avo'IDABLE. adj. [from awveid 1. That which may be avoided, fhunned or efcaped A Want of exatnefs in fuch nice experimentsi fcarce awoidable To take feveral things for granted, is hardl awoidable to any one, whofe tafk it is to fhewth falfehood or improbability of any truth Luk z. Liable to be vacated or annulled. = The charters were not awoidable for theking' nonage; and if there could have been any fuc pretence, that alone would not avoifl them, Ha Avo'ipaNce. n f [from aveid. 1. The a& of avoiding i It is appointed to givegus- vigour in thel'"": of what is good, or in the awoidance of What hurtful Wat 2. The courfe by which any thing 15 ¢& ried off hfl For awoidances and drainings of water,W there is too much, we fhall fpeal'i_»flfw-" g 3. The a& or ftate of becoming vacant 4. The a& of annulling AVOY'DER. 7, /i Efr'oquflm% 1. The perfon that aveids o thing |