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Audiphone
- - An instrument which, placed against the teeth, conveys sound to the auditory nerve and enables the deaf to hear more or less distinctly; a dentiphone.
Autophagi
- - Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.
Autophagy
- - The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.
Autophoby
- - Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical.
Autophony
- - An auscultatory process, which consists in noting the tone of the observer's own voice, while he speaks, holding his head close to the patient's chest.
Autophyte
- noun - plant capable of synthesizing its own food from simple organic substances
Avouching
- verb - admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about
Babushkas
- noun - a woman's headscarf folded into a triangle and tied under the chin; worn by Russian peasant women
- An old woman, a grandmother ( in Russia )
Backchats
- noun - Impudence, cheek
- light teasing repartee
Backshish
- - In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter); a gratuity; a