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Aurora: Definition and part of speech

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Aurora

  1. n. The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).
  2. n. The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
  3. n. The rise, dawn, or beginning.
  4. 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.
  5. n. A species of crowfoot.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Auricular: Definition and part of speech

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Auricular

  1. a. Pertaining to the auricles of the heart.
  2. a. Of or pertaining to the ear, or to the sense of hearing; as, auricular nerves.
  3. a. Told in the ear, i. e., told privately; as, auricular confession to the priest.
  4. a. Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence.
  5. a. Received by the ear; known by report.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Auricularia: Definition and part of speech

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Auricularia

  1. n. pl. A kind of holothurian larva, with soft, blunt appendages. See Illustration in Appendix.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.