Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AU-GUST'INS, or AU-GUST-IN'I-ANS, n.

An order of monks, so called from St. Augustin. They originally were hermits, and called Austin friars. They were congregated into one body by Pope Alexander IV., under Lanfranc, in 1256. They clothe in black, and make one of the four orders of Mendicants. – Encyc.