These are the meanings of the letters AUTOCHTON when you unscramble them.
- Cahoot (n.)
Partnership; as, to go in cahoot with a person.
- Chaunt (n. & v.)
See Chant.
- Cotton (n.)
A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
- Cotton (n.)
Cloth made of cotton.
- Cotton (n.)
The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
- Cotton (v. i.)
To go on prosperously; to succeed.
- Cotton (v. i.)
To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
- Cotton (v. i.)
To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.
- Cotton (v. i.)
To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
- Nautch (n.)
An entertainment consisting chiefly of dancing by professional dancing (or Nautch) girls.
- Octant (n.)
An instrument for measuring angles (generally called a quadrant), having an arc which measures up to 9O¡, but being itself the eighth part of a circle. Cf. Sextant.
- Octant (n.)
One of the eight parts into which a space is divided by three coordinate planes.
- Octant (n.)
The eighth part of a circle; an arc of 45 degrees.
- Octant (n.)
The position or aspect of a heavenly body, as the moon or a planet, when half way between conjunction, or opposition, and quadrature, or distant from another body 45 degrees.
- Outact (v. t.)
To do or beyond; to exceed in acting.
- Toucan (n.)
A modern constellation of the southern hemisphere.
- Toucan (n.)
Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast.