Note: Aunt is sometimes applied as a title or term of endearment to a kind elderly woman not thus related.
2. An old woman; and old gossip. [Obs.] Shak.
3. A bawd, or a prostitute. [Obs.] Shak. Aunt Sally, a puppet head placed on a pole and having a pipe in its mouth; also a game, which consists in trying to hit the pipe by throwing short bludgeons at it.
AUNTER
Aun"ter, n.
Defn: Adventure; hap. [Obs.] In aunters, perchance.
AUNTER; AUNTRE
Aun"ter, Aun"tre, v. t. Etym: [See Adventure.]
Defn: To venture; to dare. [Obs.] Chaucer.
AUNTIE; AUNTY
Aunt"ie, Aunt"y, n.
Defn: A familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.
AUNTROUS
Aun"trous, a.