"""broad Gauge " :: Broad gauge () A wider distance between the rails than the standard gauge of four feet eight inches and a half. See Gauge..

"draughtsman :: Draughtsman (n.) A man or piece used in the game of draughts..

Arraught :: Arraught () Obtained; seized.

Augean :: Augean (a.) Of or pertaining to Augeus, king of Elis, whose stable contained 3000 oxen, and had not been cleaned for 30 years. Hercules cleansed it in a single day..

Augean :: Augean (a.) Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.

Auger :: Auger (n.) A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge..

Auger :: Auger (n.) An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water..

Auget :: Auget (n.) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied..

Aught :: Aught (n.) Alt. of Auch.

Aught :: Aught (n.) Anything; any part.

Aught :: Aught (adv.) At all; in any degree.

Augite :: Augite (n.) A variety of pyroxene, usually of a black or dark green color, occurring in igneous rocks, such as basalt; -- also used instead of the general term pyroxene..

Augitic :: Augitic (a.) Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as a principal constituent; as, augitic rocks..

Augment :: Augment (v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reeforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil..

Augment :: Augment (v. t.) To add an augment to.

Augment :: Augment (v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain..

Augment :: Augment (n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.

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

Augmentable :: Augmentable (a.) Capable of augmentation.

Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase..

Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) The state of being augmented; enlargement.

Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) The thing added by way of enlargement.

Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark of honor..

Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) The stage of a disease in which the symptoms go on increasing.

Augmentation :: Augmentation (n.) In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length..

Augmentative :: Augmentative (a.) Having the quality or power of augmenting; expressing augmentation.

Augmentative :: Augmentative (n.) 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..

Augmented :: Augmented (imp. & p. p.) of Augmen.

Augmenter :: Augmenter (n.) One who, or that which, augments or increases anything..

Augmenting :: Augmenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Augmen.

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