3. Favoring; favorable; propitious; -- applied to persons or things. "Thy auspicious mistress." Shak. "Auspicious gales." Pope.
Syn. -- See Propitious.
-- Aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- Aus*pi"cious*ness, n.
||Aus"ter (&?;), n. [L. auster a dry, hot, south wind; the south.] The south wind. Pope.
Aus*tere" (&?;), [F. austère, L. austerus, fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to parch, dry. Cf. Sear.] 1. Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.
2. Severe in modes of judging, or living, or acting; rigid; rigorous; stern; as, an austere man, look, life.
From whom the austere Etrurian virtue rose.
Dryden.