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AUCHINLECK, vulgarly AFFLECK, town and parish in east of Kyle district, Ayrshire. The town stands on Lugar water, 13f miles south-south-east of Kilmarnock, and has a post office, with money order department, under Cumnock ; a rail-way station, a parochial church, a United Original Secession church, and a public school with about 303 scholars. Pop. 1528. The parish contains also the villages of CommonDyke, Cronberry, and Dernconner, most of the town of Lugar, and small part of the town of Cumnock. Its length is 16 miles, its mean breadth not more than 2. Acres, 24,129. Real property in 1880-81, 31,330. Pop. 6681. The eastern section is hilly and wild, and includes some lofty summits ; the western section, low, fertile, and embellished ; and the middle section is of medium character. About one-third of the entire area is in tillage. Auchinleck House, 3 miles west of the town, was erected by the judge Lord Auchinleck, father of the biographer of Dr. Johnson. A ruined baronial fortalice, the residence of the early Bos-wells from the time of James iv., stands in that mansion's neighbourhood, and remains of another old fortalice are in the eastern district. There are 6 schools for 1248 scholars, and 1 of them and an enlargement for 250 are new.