auditress

[The feminine form of Eug. auditor.] A female hearer. IMG:content-0892.png:[blocks in formation] âu fait ( it silent), used as an adj . [Fr. ( lit. ) = to the deed; also in fact, indeed, in reality.] Acquainted with, skilled in. * âu'-fald, a. The same as AFALD (q.v.). Âu-ge-an, a. [From Lat. Augeas , in Gr. Αὐγέας ( Angeas ), or Αὐγείας ( Augeias ); and Eng. suff. -an . ] 1. Cla . Myth. Pertaining to Augeas, one of the Argonauts, king of Elis, who was represented as having a stable, or cow-house, which had been occupied for thirty years by 300 of his cattle, without ever once having been cleansed. Hercules undertook the great task, and succeeded completely in his endeavour, by turning the course of the rivers Alpheus and Peneus through the polluted stable. He next slew the king, who had defrauded him of his hire, and put on the throne Phyleus, the son of the erring monarch. 2. Pertaining to whatever has been too long neglected, and cannot now, without Herculean labour, be put right.