Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun plural Large, eye-shaped mineral grains occurring in foliated metamorphic rocks such as schist and gneiss.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[German Augen, eyes, plural of Auge, eye, from Middle High German ouge, from Old High German ouga; see okw- in Indo-European roots.]

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Examples

  • The older acid rocks are represented by the sills of granite and augen-gneiss occurring west of Portsoy, south of Fordyce and near Keith, while the older basic rocks are illustrated by the belt of gabbro, epidiorite and hornblende-schist which stretches southwards from the coast at Portsoy, by Rothiemay to Huntly in Aberdeenshire.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

  • "Wegen iren augen und iren sorgen one ruhe" (= because of their eyes and their sorrows without ceasing).

    Lola or, The Thought and Speech of Animals Henny Kindermann

  • Chapter 18: = vier augen = replaced by = vier Augen =

    Nobody Susan Warner 1852

  • It was much funnier. ich hab den tinnitus innen augen - ich seh nur pfeifen.

    rpgcodex.net 2010

  • It was much funnier. ich hab den tinnitus innen augen - ich seh nur pfeifen.

    rpgcodex.net 2010

  • Can someone approve this? ich hab den tinnitus innen augen - ich seh nur pfeifen

    rpgcodex.net 2010

  • Das einzigste was ich digital gemacht hab, waren die lichtpunkte in den augen der beiden

    Popular in the last 8 hours 2009

  • Yes, Ladies and Gentlemen, It's True gestern über diesen bericht gestolpert - erstgebärende vielleicht erstmal vorsichtig mit zusammengekniffenen augen [...] auf den Arm genommen

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  • For more white German rap video with people in masks google "sido augen auf".

    tinyluckygenius aka the Unicorn's tear 2008

  • morgen fotos machen bei der fotofrau,sehe nicht so aus, als sei ich fototauglich,but never mind. ich werde wie die middle-aged mother aussehen, die ich bin, gezeichnet von schlaflosen nächten und ämtergängen,mit einem massiven rückenschaden,aber im herzen ein kungfu-babe,mit augen wie pammy.

    kein keks queencake 2007

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