Note: Limited to the head, it is strictly termed a nimbus; when it envelops the whole body, an aureola. Fairholt.
3. A halo, actual or figurative.
The glorious aureole of light seen around the sun during total
eclipses. Proctor.
The aureole of young womanhood. O. W. Holmes.
4. (Anat.)
Defn: See Areola, 2.
AU REVOIR
Au` re*voir". [F., lit., to the seeing again.]
Defn: Good-by until we meet again.
AURIC
Au"ric, a. Etym: [L. aurum gold.]
1. Of or pertaining to gold.
2. (Chem.)
Defn: Pertaining to, or derived from, gold; — said of those compounds of gold in which this element has its higher valence; as, auric oxide; auric chloride.