Au*la"ri*an (&?;), a. [L. aula hall. Cf. LL. aularis of a court.] Relating to a hall.
Au*la"ri*an, n. At Oxford, England, a member of a hall, distinguished from a collegian. Chalmers.
Auld (&?;), a. [See Old.] Old; as, Auld Reekie (old smoky), i. e., Edinburgh. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Auld` lang syne" (&?;). A Scottish phrase used in recalling recollections of times long since past. "The days of auld lang syne."
Au*let"ic (&?;), a. [L. auleticus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; flute.] Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper. [R.] Ash.
Au"lic, a. [L. aulicus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; hall, court, royal court.] Pertaining to a royal court.
Ecclesiastical wealth and aulic dignities.
Landor.
Aulic council (Hist.), a supreme court of the old German empire; properly the supreme court of the emperor. It ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by his successor. It became extinct when the German empire was dissolved, in 1806. The term is now applied to a council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that empire are called aulic councilors. P. Cyc.
Au"lic, n. The ceremony observed in conferring the degree of doctor of divinity in some European universities. It begins by a harangue of the chancellor addressed to the young doctor, who then receives the cap, and presides at the disputation (also called the aulic).
Auln (&?;), n. An ell. [Obs.] See Aune.
{ Aul"nage (&?;), Aul"na*ger (&?;), } n. See Alnage and Alnager.
Aum (&?;), n. Same as Aam.
Au*mail" (&?;), v. t. [OE. for amel, enamel.] To figure or variegate. [Obs.] Spenser.
Aum"bry (&?;), n. Same as Ambry.
Au"me*ry (&?;), n. A form of Ambry, a closet; but confused with Almonry, as if a place for alms.
Aun"cel (&?;), n. A rude balance for weighing, and a kind of weight, formerly used in England. Halliwell.
Aun"cet*ry (&?;), n. Ancestry. [Obs.] Chaucer.
||Aune (&?;), n. [F. See Alnage.] A French cloth measure, of different parts of the country (at Paris, 0.95 of an English ell); -- now superseded by the meter.
Aunt (änt), n. [OF. ante, F. tante, L. amita father's sister. Cf. Amma.] 1. The sister of one's father or mother; -- correlative to nephew or niece. Also applied to an uncle's wife.
Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.