Amaurosis :: Amaurosis (n.) A loss or decay of sight, from loss of power in the optic nerve, without any perceptible external change in the eye; -- called also gutta serena, the drop serene of Milton..

Amaurotic :: Amaurotic (a.) Affected with amaurosis; having the characteristics of amaurosis.

Aurocephalous :: Aurocephalous (a.) Having a gold-colored head.

Aurochloride :: Aurochloride (n.) The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride of another metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate..

Aurochs :: Aurochs (n.) The European bison (Bison bonasus, / Europaeus), once widely distributed, but now nearly extinct, except where protected in the Lithuanian forests, and perhaps in the Caucasus. It is distinct from the Urus of Caesar, with which it has often been confused..

Aurocyanide :: Aurocyanide (n.) A double cyanide of gold and some other metal or radical; -- called also cyanaurate.

Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The rise, dawn, or beginning..

Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew..

Aurora :: Aurora (n.) A species of crowfoot.

Aurora :: Aurora (n.) The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).

Aurorae :: Aurorae (pl. ) of Auror.

Auroral :: Auroral (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy..

Auroras :: Auroras (pl. ) of Auror.

Aurous :: Aurous (a.) Containing gold.

Aurous :: Aurous (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; -- said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its lower valence; as, aurous oxide..

Laurone :: Laurone (n.) The ketone of lauric acid.

Nauropometer :: Nauropometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount which a ship heels at sea.

Pauropoda :: Pauropoda (n. pl.) An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of tracheae.

Saurobatrachia :: Saurobatrachia (n. pl.) The Urodela.

Saurognathous :: Saurognathous (a.) Having the bones of the palate arranged as in saurians, the vomer consisting of two lateral halves, as in the woodpeckers (Pici)..

Sauroid :: Sauroid (a.) Like or pertaining to the saurians.

Sauroid :: Sauroid (a.) Resembling a saurian superficially; as, a sauroid fish..

Sauroidichnite :: Sauroidichnite (n.) The fossil track of a saurian.

Sauropoda :: Sauropoda (n. pl.) An extinct order of herbivorous dinosaurs having the feet of a saurian type, instead of birdlike, as they are in many dinosaurs. It includes the largest known land animals, belonging to Brontosaurus, Camarasaurus, and allied genera. See Illustration in Appendix..

Sauropsida :: Sauropsida (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of vertebrates, comprising the reptiles and birds..

Sauropterygia :: Sauropterygia (n. pl.) Same as Plesiosauria.

Staurolite :: Staunchness () See Stanch, Stanchly, etc..

Staurolitic :: Staurolite (n.) A mineral of a brown to black color occurring in prismatic crystals, often twinned so as to form groups resembling a cross. It is a silicate of aluminia and iron, and is generally found imbedded in mica schist. Called also granatite, and grenatite..

Stauroscope :: Staurolitic (a.) Of or pertaining to staurolite; resembling or containing staurolite.

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