2. A great magician, wizard, or enchanter. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One very vigilant; a guardian always watchful. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A genus of East Indian pheasants. The common species (Argus giganteus) is remarkable for the great length and beauty of the wing and tail feathers of the male. The species Argus Grayi inhabits Borneo. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The young and tender shoots of Asparagus officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This word was formerly pronounced sparrowgrass; but this pronunciation is now confined exclusively to uneducated people. [ 1913 Webster ]

Asparagus beetle (Zool.), a small beetle (Crioceris asparagi) injurious to asparagus. [ 1913 Webster ]

So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

To mingle with a body so august. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Grand; magnificent; majestic; solemn; awful; noble; stately; dignified; imposing. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The old Roman name was Sextilis, the sixth month from March, the month in which the primitive Romans, as well as Jews, began the year. The name was changed to August in honor of Augustus Cæsar, the first emperor of Rome, on account of his victories, and his entering on his first consulate in that month. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to the town of Augsburg. [ 1913 Webster ]

Augustan age of any national literature, the period of its highest state of purity and refinement; -- so called because the reign of Augustus Cæsar was the golden age of Roman literature. Thus the reign of Louis XIV. (b. 1638) has been called the Augustan age of French literature, and that of Queen Anne (b. 1664) the Augustan age of English literature. --
Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church. [ 1913 Webster ]

Augustinian canons, an order of monks once popular in England and Ireland; -- called also regular canons of St. Austin, and black canons. --
Augustinian hermits or
Austin friars, an order of friars established in 1265 by Pope Alexander IV. It was introduced into the United States from Ireland in 1790. --
Augustinian nuns, an order of nuns following the rule of St. Augustine. --
Augustinian rule, a rule for religious communities based upon the 109th letter of St. Augustine, and adopted by the Augustinian orders. [ 1913 Webster ]

To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

Syn. -- Nausea; loathing; aversion; distaste; dislike; disinclination; abomination. See Dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The fungi are all destitute of chorophyll, and, therefore, to be supplied with elaborated nourishment, must live as saprophytes or parasites. They range in size from single microscopic cells to systems of entangled threads many feet in extent, which develop reproductive bodies as large as a man's head. The vegetative system consists of septate or rarely unseptate filaments called hyphæ; the aggregation of hyphæ into structures of more or less definite form is known as the mycelium. See Fungi, in the Supplement. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A spongy, morbid growth or granulation in animal bodies, as the proud flesh of wounds. Hoblyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To issue with violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps ixxviii 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a sentimental or untimely exhibition of affection; to display enthusiasm in a silly, demonstrative manner. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The gush of springs,
An fall of lofty foundains. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sentimental exhibition of affection or enthusiasm, etc.; effusive display of sentiment. [ Collog. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Emitting copiously, as tears or words; weakly and unreservedly demonstrative in matters of affection; sentimental. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Weakly; sentimentally; effusively. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]