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AUGER (from the O. Eng. nafu-gdr, nave-borer; the original initial n having been lost, as in " adder," through a confusion in the case of a preceding indefinite article), a tool for boring (q.v.) or drilling.

AUGEREAU, PIERRE FRANCOIS CHARLES, duke of Castiglione (1757-1816), marshal of France, was born in Paris in a humble station of life. At the age of seventeen he enlisted in the carabineers and thereafter came into note as a duellist. Having drawn his sword upo ...

AUE, a town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, at the confluence of the Mulde and Schwarzwasser, 21 m. S.W. from Chemnitz on the railway to Adorf. It has a school of lacemaking, foundries, and manufactures of machinery, tin-plate and cotton goods. Pop. (190

AUGEAS, or AUGEIAS, in Greek legend, a son of Helios, the sun-god, and king of the Epeians in Elis. He possessed an immense wealth of herds, including twelve bulls sacred to Helios, and white as swans. Eurystheus imposed upon Heracles the task of clearing out

AUGITE, an important member of the pyroxene (?.».) group of rock-forming minerals. The name (from abyii, lustre) has at various times been used in different senses; it is now applied to aluminous pyroxenes of the monoclinic series which are darkgreenish, brown

AUGURS, in ancient Rome, members of a religious college whose duty it was to observe and interpret the signs (auspices) of approval or disapproval sent by the gods in reference to any proposed undertaking. The augur es were originally called auspices, but, whi

... Bembo, who conceived here his Dialoghi degli Asolani, and by Andrea Navagero (Naugerius). Paulus Manutius was born here. The village of Maser is 45 m. to the E. , and near it is the Villa Giacomelli, erected by Palladio, containing frescoes by Paolo Veronese, ...

... much popularity, and suffer from lack of form and concentration. goo AUERSPERG— AUGEREAU Auerbach's fame continues to rest upon his Dorfgeschichten, although the celebrity of even these has been impaired by the growing demand for a more uncompromising realism. ...

AUGMENT (Lat. augere, to increase), in Sanskrit and Greek grammar the vowel prefixed to indicate the past tenses of a verb; in Greek grammar it is called syllabic, when only the e is prefixed; temporal, when it causes an initial vowel in the verb to become a d ...