in a general sense, a hearer, or one who listens and attends to any thing.

Auditor, according to our law, is an officer of the king, or some other great person, who, by examining yearly the accounts of the under-officers, makes up a general book, with the difference between their receipts and charges, and their allowances to allocations.

Auditor of the receipt, is an officer of the exchequer who files the tellers bills, makes an entry of them, and gives the lord-treasurer a certificate of the money received the week before. He also makes debentures to every teller, before they receive any money, and take their accounts. He keeps the black book of receipts, and the treasurer's key of the treasury, and fees every teller's money locked up in the new treasury.

Auditors of the revenue, or of the exchequer, officers who take the accounts of those who collect the revenues and taxes raised by parliament, and take the accounts of the sheriffs, escheators, collectors, tenants, and customers, and set them down in a book, and perfect them.

Auditors of the press and imprest, are officers of the exchequer, who take and make up the accounts of Ireland, Berwick, the mint, and of any money impressed to any man for the king's service.

Auditors collegiate, conventual, &c. officers formerly appointed in colleges, &c. to examine and pass their accounts.

Auditory nerves, in anatomy. See p. 249.

AVAIL of marriage, in Scots law, that casualty in ward-holding, by which the superior was intitled to a certain sum from his vassal, upon his attaining the age of puberty, as the value or avail of his tocher. See Scots Law, tit. Of casualties due to the superior.