audit 
The commission under the convention with the Repub- 
lic of New Granada closed its session without having 
audited and passed upon all the claims which were sub- 
mitted to it. Lincoln, in Raymond, p. sn. 
II. intraits. To examine into the correctness 
of an account ; act as an auditor. 
Let Hocus audit ; he 
bursed. 
audit-ale (a'dit-al), . . 
kind of ale brewed at certain colleges in the 
English universities, originally for use on audit- 
day. It was formerly a custom in all the colleges to make 
a great feast on the day on which the college accounts 
were audited, and the very best ale was brought out for 
the occasion. The audit-ale was first broached on that day 
every year. 
378 auger 
pope: as, auditor of the apostolic chamber; au fond (6 foil). [F.: , at the (see a u^; fond, 
-' "-- " bottom: see fund.] At bottom; essentially. 
Petrarch was timid. Laura was a woman of sense, and 
yet, like all women, aufond, a coquette. 
C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 9. 
auget, augest, auxt, . [It. Sp. Pg. auge, acme, 
summit, ML. auges, aux, < Ar. Pers. auj, top, 
summit, altitude, zenith, ascendant of a plan- 
et.] In old astron. : (a) Properly, the apogee 
of a planet, or the longitude of the apogee. 
(b) Either apsis of the orbit, (c) The culmi- 
nation or point of culmination. 
auditor of the pope; auditors of the Roman 
rota (which see) Auditor of the Court of Ses- 
sion, in Scotland, a crown officer to whom suits in which 
expenses are found due may be remitted in order that the 
costs may be taxed. Auditors of the Exchequer. See 
commi&tuitiers of audit, under attdit. 
W lK"r John Bun'l, 8t auditoria. . Plural of auditorium. 
' auditorial (a-di-to'ri-al), a. [Cf. LL. auditori- 
A specially excellent { perta iuing to a -school (auditorium), ML. 
dW-QlM /irtllotmsi 1T1 thfl i. . i. i T j- / T T 
auilttoriali.i scholastieus, an advocate; < LL,. 
auditorius, auditory, < L. auditor, a hearer: 
see auditory.'] 1. Auditory. Sir J. Stoddart. 
accounts, or to audits. 
auditorium (a-di-td'ri-um), n. ; pi. auditoriums, 
auditoria (-umz, -a). [L., a court of justice, 
a hall of audience, a school, assembled hear- 
ers, in ML. also a reception-room in a monas- 
tery ; neut. of LL. auditorius, of or for hear- 
ing: see auditory, a.] 1. In a church, theater, 
public hall, or the like, the space allotted to 
the hearers or audience. 2. In monasteries, 
an apartment for receiving visitors; a parlor 
- - -s . - iV- or reception-room, 
ment to which he claims a valid defense ; the au( iitorship (a'di-tor-ship), n. The office of 
:*- l^r ,,. M..1, .-ii,. I, ort+inTi ia Hwo-lin PNnw **** \ 
auditor. 
Observin" from the goose on the table and the audit- 
ale which was circling in the loving-cup that it was a feast. 
Farrar. 
audita querela (a-di'ta kwe-re'la). [L. (NL.), 
the complaint having been heard : audita, fern, 
of auditus, pp. of audire, hear; querela, com- 
plaint: see audient and quarrel 1 .'] In law, a 
form of action in which the judgment debtor 
strives to recall or prevent execution on a judg- 
writ by which such action is begun. [Now 
[Rare.] 2. Of or pertaining to an auditor of Augean (a-je'an), a. [< L. Augeas, Augtas, < 
-- - Gr. Aiytaf, AiTyf/of, king of Elis (see def.), ac- 
cording to one tradition a son of the Sun and 
Naupidame ; prob. < airyr/, splendor, sunlight.] 
Of or pertaining to Augeas or Augeias, one of 
the Argonauts, and afterward king of Elis, or 
resembling his stables; hence, very filthy. 
Augean stable, in Or. myth., a stable in which this king 
kept 3,000 oxen, and which had not been cleaned for thirty 
years, so that the task of cleaning it had come to be 
deemed impracticable. Hercules accomplished the task 
in a single day, by turning the river Alpheus through 
the stable. Hence, cleansing the Augean stable has be- 
come a synonym for the removal of long-standing nui- 
sances, abuses, and the like. 
auditory 
n. A building or or for h - earing; 
pp. auditus, 
to hearing or to the sense or organs of hear- 
,. . . . ing: as, the auditory nerve. 2. Pertaining to 
- '' a an auditorium; designed for an audience: as, 
the auditory part of a theater. [Rare.] Audi- 
of the ear. Auditory canal, the meatus auditorius ex- 
ternus and internus. See meatut, and cut under ear. 
Auditory crest, auditory hairs, auditory plate, in 
cephalopods. See extracts. 
The terminations of the auditory nerves either form the 
auditory plate, which is a thickened portion of the epi- 
thelium, from which the cells send hair-like processes 
(auditory hairs) (Sepia) ; or an auditory crest, which gen- 
erally takes a curved direction, and which is likewise 
generally superseded.] 
audit-house (a'dit-hous), ... 
room appended to an English cathedral, m 
which the business belonging to the cathedral 
is transacted. 
audition (a-dish'on), n. [< L. 
hearing, listening, < audire, pp. auditus, hear: 
see audient.] 1. The act of hearing; a hearing 
or listening ; the sensation from an impression 
on the auditory nerve by the vibrations of the 
air produced by a sonorous body. 
It is generally admitted that the audition of speech in 
the telephone is the result of repetitions, by the dia- 
phragm in the receiving instrument, ... of the vibra- 
tions produced in the transmitter. 
Quoted in G. B. Prescott's Elect. Invent., p. 288. 
2. The sense of hearing; hearing, as a physio- 
logical function or faculty ; one of the five spe- ' """Oeg^baur Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 357. 
cial senses. 3. Something heard. [Rare.] 
I went to hear it [the Cock-Lane Ghost), for it is not an 
apparition, but an audition. Walpole, Letters, II. 333. 
Ossicles of audition. See ossicle. 
auditive (a'di-tiv), a. [< F. auditif, < L. as if 
*auditivus, < auditus, pp. of audire, hear: see 
audient.] Of or pertaining to the sense of hear- 
ing; concerned with the power of hearing; 
auditory. 
His heart is fixed and busily taken up in some object, 
. . . and the ears, like faithful servants attending their 
master, the heart, lose the act of that auditive organ by 
some suspension, till the heart hath done with them. 
Rev. T. Adanm, Works, I. 205. 
audit-office (a'dit-of'is), n. An office where ac- 
counts are audited: as, a railway audit-office; 
specifically, in England, the office where the 
commissioners for auditing the public accounts 
of the United Kingdom transact their business. 
The imperial audit-office is under the immedi- 
ate control of the lords of the treasury. 
auditor ja'di-tor), n. [< ME. auditour (AF. au- 
ir Roquefort), < L. auditor, 
nafegdr (= 'D. avegaar, eveger, egger = LGK no- 
' r, naviger = OHG. nabager, nabiger, trans- 
~ nagiber, MHGK nabeger, negeber, neg- 
ndber, neber = Icel. nafarr (for ^naf- 
Cells bearing or developed into long auditory hairs, 
which are to be regarded as the peripheral end-organs of 
the vestibular branches of the auditory nerve. 
Encyc. Brit., VII. 592. 
Auditory duct (ductus cochlearis or ductus auditorius), 
a terra applied to the interval between the membrana tec- 
toria and the membrana basilaris of the human cochlea. 
Auditory nerve, the special nerve of hearing, which 
enters the ear-parts hy the meatus auditorius internus, 
and is distributed to the membranous labyrinth. In 
Willis's enumeration it was known as the portia mollis 
of the seventh cranial nerve ; now it is generally reckoned 
as the eighth cranial nerve. Also called the acoustic nerve. 
See cut under train. Auditory ossicles. See ossiclr. 
Auditory process, or external auditory process, 
the projecting border of the external auditory meatus to 
which the cartilage of the ear is attached. Auditory 
vesicle, the vesicle formed in the embryo by the invo- 
lution of the epiblast on either side of the head ; the rudi- 
ment of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. Internal 
auditory foramen. See foramen. 
auditory (a'di-to-ri), n. ; pi. auditories (-riz). 
[< L. auditorium: see auditorium.] 1. An 
audience; an assembly of hearers, as in a 
church, lecture-room, theater, etc. 
He had not the popular way of preaching, nor is in any 
measure fit for our plaint and vulgar auditorie, as his 
predecessor was. Evelyn, Diary, Mar. 5, 1673. 
Having entered his court, he [Bacon] addressed the 
splendid auditory in a grave and dignified speech. 
Mataulay, Lord Bacon. 
2. A place for hearing or for the accommoda- 
tion of hearers; an auditorium; specifically, 
in a church, the nave, in which the hearers or 
congregation are assembled. 
ditour, OF. auditeur _._.,, 
a hearer, in ML., specifically, a judge, commis- 
sioner, notary, examiner of accounts, etc., < 
audire, hear: see audient and audit.] 1. A 
hearer ; one who listens to what is said ; a 
member of an auditory. 
What, a play toward 1 I'll be an auditor ; 
An actor too, perhaps. Shak., M. N. D., iii. 1. 
I was infinitely delighted with the station of a humble 
auditor in such conversations. 
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, iv. 10. 
2. Same as audient, n., 2. 3. A person ap- 
pointed and authorized to examine an account 
or accounts, compare the charges with the 
vouchers, examine parties and witnesses, allow auditress (a'di-tres), n. 
or reject charges, and state the result, it is A female hearer. 
usual with courts to refer accounts involved in litigation 
to auditors, in some jurisdictions called referees or com- 
missioners, for adjustment, and their report, if received, 
is the basis of the judgment. Sometimes an auditor is a 
standing officer of political or corporate bodies. State or 
municipal auditors are persons appointed or elected to 
When Agrippa and Bernice entered into the auditory. 
Wyclif, Acts xxv. 23. 
3f. A bench on which a judge sits to hear 
causes. 4f. A lecture-room; a philosophical 
school. N. E. D. 
[< auditor + -ess.] 
Adam relating, she sole auditress. 
Milton, P. L., viii. 51. 
a. [< L. auditus (audi- 
a ,,jJt., a 1 /A-riifii nB n r< 
aUOltUal (a-Olt 11-al), a. K 
tu-), hearing (see audit, n.), + -al.] Kelatmg 
_,,._ to hearing; auditory. Coleridge. [Rare.] 
examine the public accounts as they accrue or at such au f t (&f) . The older form of oaf. 
intervals as may be designated. In the United States gov- . . . .. 
A nicer changeling, a very monster, an auf imperfect. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 607. 
eminent there are six auditors of the treasury. The first 
auditor has charge of the accounts of the civil service, 
customs, judiciary, public debt, etc.; the second, those of au fait (6 fa). 
Indian affairs and some of those of the army ; tKe third, 
those of the quartermaster-general, engineer corps, com- 
missary-general, war claims, etc. ; the fourth, those of the 
navy ; the fifth, those of the internal-revenue office, cen- 
sus, patent-office, and state department; and the sixth, 
those of the post-office department. 
4. One of certain officers of high rank at the 
papal court : so called from their connection 
with business treated of in audiences with the 
[F. ; lit., to the point or fact : 
au, to the (see a 2 ) ; fait, < L. factum, fact : see 
feat and fact.] Up to the mark; fully skilled 
or accomplished ; expert ; possessing or show- 
ing the readiness or skill of an adept : followed 
by at or in : as, he is quite aufait at the game. 
The natives [of Maitea] seemed quite au fait in the 
matter of monetary transactions and exchanges. 
Lady Brassey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. xiii. 
. < + 
napaka^ra, < Teut.), < nafu, nave, + gar, a 
borer, spear : see navel, gar*, and gore 2 ."] 1. 
^ instrument for boring holes larger than 
Cook's Auger. 
Expanding Auge: 
those bored by a bit or gimlet, it consists of an 
iron shank ending in a steel bit, and a handle placed at 
right angles with the shank. The augers formerly made 
with a straight channel or groove are called 
pod-augers; augers of the modern form, with 
spiral channels, are called screw-augers. The 
ordinary screw-auger is forged as a paralleled 
blade of steel, which is twisted while red-hot. 
The end terminates in a worm, by which the 
auger is gradually drawn into the work, like 
the gimlet. Another form is that of a cylindri- 
cal shaft, around which is brazed a single fin 
or rib, the end being made into a worm, and 
immediately behind the worm a small diamet- 
rical mortise is formed for the reception of a 
detached cutter, which exactly resembles the 
chisel-edge of the center-bit. Expaitding au- 
yers have cutters susceptible of radial adjust- 
ment for boring holes of different sizes. In the 
slotting-auger, used for channels, mortises, etc., 
the cutting lips are upon the side of the auger 
as well as at the end, and the piece to be groov- 
ed is fed against them laterally. Mortises are 
cut by causing the auger to penetrate to the 
proper depth, and then feeding the work later- 
ally to the required length. The two rounded 
ends of the mortise are then squared with a 
________ The square-hole aur>er is an auger revolving 
within a rectangular tube or boring, whose lower edge is 
sharpened to cut away the remaining substance of the 
square circumscribing the round hole 
which the auger bores a little in ad- 
vance. 
2. An instrument for boring the 
soil. Such an in- _ 
chisel. 
in 
strument used 
setting posts is 
called a post-hole 
auger, and one for 
ascertaining the 
nature of the sub- 
soil, the presence 
or absence of wa- 
ter, etc., is called 
specifically an 
earth-boring auger. 
Augers for the lat- 
ter use are of va- 
rious kinds, but 
they all consist of 
three parts, name- 
ly: a handle by 
which two or more 
men can work the instrument ; the bit, mouth, or cutting 
piece ; and rods for connecting the handle with the bit or 
cutting piece. Annular auger. See annular. 
Post-hole Auger. 
