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Au"di*tor (&?;), n. [L. auditor, fr. audire. See Audible, a.] 1. A hearer or listener. Macaulay.

2. A person appointed and authorized to audit or examine an account or accounts, compare the charges with the vouchers, examine the parties and witnesses, allow or reject charges, and state the balance.

3. One who hears judicially, as in an audience court.

In the United States government, and in the State governments, there are auditors of the treasury and of the public accounts. The name is also applied to persons employed to check the accounts of courts, corporations, companies, societies, and partnerships.

Au`di*to"ri*al (&?;), a. Auditory. [R.]

Au`di*to"ri*um (&?;), n. [L. See Auditory, n.] The part of a church, theater, or other public building, assigned to the audience.

In ancient churches the auditorium was the nave, where hearers stood to be instructed; in monasteries it was an apartment for the reception of strangers.

Au"di*tor*ship (&?;), n. The office or function of auditor.

Au"di*to*ry (&?;), a. [L. auditorius.] Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.

Auditory canal (Anat.), the tube from the auditory meatus or opening of the ear to the tympanic membrane.

Au"di*to*ry, n. [L. auditorium.] 1. An assembly of hearers; an audience.

2. An auditorium. Udall.

Au"di*tress (&?;), n. A female hearer. Milton.

Au*dit"u*al (&?;), a. Auditory. [R.] Coleridge.

Auf (f), n. [OE. auph, aulf, fr. Icel. lfr elf. See Elf.] [Also spelt oaf, ouphe.] A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf. [Obs.] Drayton.

||Au` fait" (` f"). [F. Lit., to the deed, act, or point. Fait is fr. L. factum. See Fact.] Expert; skillful; well instructed.

Au*ge"an (&?;), a. 1. (Class. Myth.) 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.

2. Hence: Exceedingly filthy or corrupt.

Augean stable (Fig.), an accumulation of corruption or filth almost beyond the power of man to remedy.

Au"ger (&?;), n. [OE. augoure, nauger, AS. nafegr, fr. nafu, nafa, nave of a wheel + gr spear, and therefore meaning properly and originally a nave-bore. See Nave (of a wheel) and 2d Gore, n.] 1. 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.

2. 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.

Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

||Au*get" (&?;), n. [F., dim. of auge trough, fr. L. alveus hollow, fr. alvus belly.] (Mining) A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied. Knight.

{ Aught (&?;), Aucht } (&?;), n. [AS. &?;ht, fr. gan to own, p. p. hte.] Property; possession. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Aught (&?;), n. [OE. aught, ought, awiht, AS. wiht, ever + wiht. √136. See Aye ever, and Whit, Wight.] Anything; any part. [Also written ought.]

There failed not aught of any good thing which the Lord has spoken. Josh. xxi. 45

But go, my son, and see if aught be wanting. Addison.

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