AUGER, a Carpenter or Joyner's Tool

To AUGMENT, to increase, to inlarge, or improve.

AUGMENTATION, an In­crease, Inlargement, or Improve­ment.

AUGUR, a Soothsayer, a Diviner, a Foreteller of Things.

AUGUST, grand, majestick.

AUKWARD, unhandy, un­toward, ungain.

AUKWARDNESS, Unhan­diness, Ungainliness

AULCASTER, a Town in Warwickshire.

AUNT, a Father's or Mo­ther's Sister.

To AVOID, to shun, to e­scape, to get out of the way of.

AVERDUPOIS, a Weight of Sixteen Ounces to the Pound.

To AVOUCH, to justify, to maintain, to stand to, to assert.

To AVOW, to justify a thing already done.

AVOWABLE, justifiable.

AURORA, the Morning­Twilight.

AUSPICIOUS, lucky, pro­sperous.

AUSTERE, harsh, crabbed, severe.

AUSTERITY, Roughness, Harshness, Severity.

AUTHENTICK, of good Au­thority, approved, allowed of.

AUTHOR, the Inventor, Contriver, or Maker of any thing; the Writer of a Book, the Head or Ringleader of a Faction.

AUTHORITY, Power, Rule, Government.

To AUTHORISE, to give Power of Authority to, to im­power.

AUTUMN, the Season of the Year after Harvest.

AUTUMNAL, belonging to Autumn.

AUXILIARY, helpful, aid­ing, assisting.

AW, Fear, Reverence, Re­spect.

AWAY, absent from.

AWFUL, causing an Aw.

AWKWARD, See AUK­WARD.

AWL, a sharp pointed Tool.

AX, a sharp Tool belonging to Carpenters

AXIOM, a self-evident Prin­ciple.

AXIS, the Axel-free of a Coach or Cart.

AXLE-Tree, a Piece of Wood under a Cart, upon which the Wheels turn.

AXMINSTER, a Town in Devonshire.

To AYL, to be sick, in pain.

AZARIAH, a King of Judah.

AZURE, Sky-colour, or light-blue.

B.

BAAL, the Name of an Idol.

BAASHA, a King of Israel.

To BABBLE, to chatter, to prate, to talk impertinently.

BABBLE, idle Talk.

A BABBLER, a Prater, a Chatterer, an impertinent fel­low.

BABE, an Infant in the Cradle.

BABEL, a Tower built by the Posterity of Noah after the Flood.

BABOON, a large sort of Monkey.

BACHELOR, BATCHELOUR, an unmar­ried Man.

BACHELOR of Arts, the first Degree taken in the University.

BACK, the hinder part of the Body.

To BACK, to mount, or get on Horse-back, to countenance, to support.

To BACKBITE, to speak ill of behind the Back, to slander.

To BACKSLIDE, to fall from, to revolt.

BACKWARD, behind, un­willing.

BACKWARDNESS, Unwil­lingness.

BACON, Hogs flesh salted and dried

BAD, evil, naught, hurtful.

BADBURY, a Town in the Country of Dorset.

BADGE, a Mark of Distinc­tion worn by Noblemens Ser­vants, and the Pensioners of Parishes.

A BADGER, a Beast so called.

To BAFFLE, to confound, to disappoint.

BAG, a Sack, Pouch, or Wallet, also a Cow's Udder

BAGGAGE, travelling Fur­niture, Provision for an Army: Also a Name given to a Woman in ridicule.

BAGNIO, a House for Bath­ing and Sweating.

BAIL, Security taken for the Appearance of a person arrested.

To BAIL, to be Security for a Person arrested.

BAILABLE, that may be bailed.

BAILIFF, the Maintenance of a Province, to maintain the Peace, and do Justice, also an Officer who arrests Persons for Debt.

BAILYWICK, a Hundred or Mannor.

To BAIT, to entice, to al­lure, also to set Beasts a Flight­ing together.

To BAKE, to dress, or roast in an Oven

BALAAM, a Prophet among the Israelites.

BALAK, a King of the Moa­bites.

BALANCE, a Pair of Scales, an even Weight

To BALANCE, to weigh, to consider, to make an Account even.

BALCONY, a sort of Gallery at the Front of an House.

BALD, without Hair.

BALDERDASH, a confused or jumbled Discourse.

BALDWIN, a proper Name of Men.

BALE, a Pack of any sort of Goods.

BALIOL-College, in the Uni­versity of Oxford

A BALK, a Path, or small Ridge of Land between two Burrows.

To BALK, to disappoint, to discourage, to neglect.

BALL, any Thing round.

A BALL, a Publick Dancing.

BALLAD, a Song commonly Sung in the Streets.

BALLAST, Sand, Gravel, or Stores, placed at the Bottom of a Ship, to keep her upright.

BALLOT, a little Ball used in Voting.

To BALLOT, to Vote by Balloting.

BALM, the Juice of a Tree Growing in Egypt.

BALSAM, an healing oily Composition, or natural Sub­stance.

BALSAMICK, healing.

BALTICK, the Sea belonging to the Island of Baltia, in the German Ocean.