*aw*

v. t. [ Cf. OE. adawe of dawe, AS. of dagum from days, i. e., from life, out of life. ] To subdue; to daunt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The sight whereof did greatly him adaw. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ OE. adawen to wake; pref. a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-) + dawen, dagon, to dawn. See Daw. ] To awaken; to arouse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A man that waketh of his sleep
He may not suddenly well taken keep
Upon a thing, ne seen it parfitly
Till that he be adawed verily. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drawn in air; imaginary. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Welsh mythology) Lord of Annwfn (the other world; land of fairies). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a resident of Arkansas.
Syn. -- Arkansan [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. & a. Sprawling. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Awaited; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaiting. ] [ OF. awaitier, agaitier; &unr_; (L. ad) + waitier, gaitier to watch, F. guetter. See Wait. ] 1. To watch for; to look out for. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wait on, serve, or attend. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect. [ 1913 Webster ]

Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat,
Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good. [ 1913 Webster ]

O Eve, some farther change awaits us night. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To watch. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To wait (on or upon). [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To wait; to stay in waiting. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

pred. adj. 1. expected. Opposite of unexpected.
Syn. -- anticipated, hoped-for, prospective. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death. [ 1913 Webster ]

The national spirit again awoke. Freeman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Awake to righteousness, and sin not. 1 Cor. xv. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Awoke Awaked p. p. Awaked; (Obs.) Awaken, Awoken; p. pr. & vb. n. Awaking. The form Awoke is sometimes used as a p. p. ] [ AS. āwæcnan, v. i. (imp. awōc), and āwacian, v. i. (imp. awacode). See Awaken, Wake. ] 1. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

It way awake my bounty further. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From awaken, old p. p. of awake. ] Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Before whom awake I stood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

She still beheld,
Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was awake to the danger. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Awakened p. pr. & vb. n. Awakening. ] [ OE. awakenen, awaknen, AS. āwæcnan, āwæcnian, v. i.; pref. on- + wæcnan to wake. Cf. Awake, v. t. ] To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ He ] is dispatched
Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To arouse; excite; stir up; call forth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, awakens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An awakening. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + wanting. ] Missing; wanting. [ Prov. Scot. & Eng. ] Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Awarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Awarding. ] [ OF. eswarder to look at, consider, decide, judge; es (L. ex) + warder, garder, to observe, take heed, keep, fr. OHG. wartēn to watch, guard. See Ward. ] To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant. [ 1913 Webster ]

To review
The wrongful sentence, and award a new. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To determine; to make an award. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. award, awart, esgart. See Award, v. t. ] 1. A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.“Impatient for the award.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

An award had been given against. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. iwar, AS. gewær, fr. wær wary. The pref. ge- orig. meant together, completely. &unr_;. See Wary. ] 1. Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Apprised; informed; cognizant; conscious; as, he was aware of the enemy's designs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Aware of nothing arduous in a task
They never undertook. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.
Syn. -- cognizance, knowingness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; as, the crash intruded on his awareness.
Syn. -- sentience. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Pref. a- + warn, AS. gewarnian. See Warn, v. t. ] To warn. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + wash. ] 1. Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore; or specifically: (Naut.) flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it; -- of an anchor, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Abounding; filled; covered; -- used mostly with in or with, in phrases such as “stores awash with customers”. [ PJC ]

adv. [ AS. aweg, anweg, onweg; on on + weg way. ] 1. From a place; hence. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sound is going away. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have me away, for I am sore wounded. 2 Chron. xxxv. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Aside; off; in another direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun. Lockyer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. From a state or condition of being; out of existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be near me when I fade away. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down. Exod. xix. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ It is much used in phrases signifying moving or going from; as, go away, run away, etc.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast ? “Love hath wings, and will away.” Waller. It serves to modify the sense of certain verbs by adding that of removal, loss, parting with, etc.; as, to throw away; to trifle away; to squander away, etc. Sometimes it has merely an intensive force; as, to blaze away. [ 1913 Webster ]

Away with, bear, abide. [ Obs. or Archaic ] “The calling of assemblies, I can not away with.” (Isa. i. 13), i. e., “I can not bear or endure [ it ].” --
Away with one, signifies, take him away. “Away with him, crucify him.” John xix. 15. --
To make away with. (a) To kill or destroy. (b) To carry off. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Law) Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the state of being elsewhere than in particular place. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. Turned away; away. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. a&yogh_;e, aghe, fr. Icel. agi; akin to AS. ege, ōga, Goth. agis, Dan. ave chastisement, fear, Gr. 'a`chos pain, distress, from the same root as E. ail. √3. Cf. Ugly. ] 1. Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [ Obs. or Obsolescent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His frown was full of terror, and his voice
Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence. [ 1913 Webster ]

There is an awe in mortals' joy,
A deep mysterious fear. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power. C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Reverence. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Awed (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Awing. ] To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. [ 1913 Webster ]

That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. Wearied. [ Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- + weary. ] Weary. [ Poetic ] “I begin to be aweary of thee.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + weather. ] (Naut.) On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather! Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + weigh. ] (Naut.) Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Awless. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Expressive of awe or terror. [ 1913 Webster ]

An awesome glance up at the auld castle. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being awesome. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Awe-struck. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Struck with awe. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. “The hour of Nature's awful throes.” Hemans. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heaven's awful Monarch. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Struck or filled with awe; terror-stricken. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A weak and awful reverence for antiquity. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thrust from the company of awful men. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Frightful; exceedingly bad; great; -- applied intensively; as, an awful bonnet; an awful boaster. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Frightful. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Very; excessively. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. [ 1913 Webster ]

The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Producing in us reverence and awfulness. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. whap blow. ] To confound; to terrify; to amaze. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Adj. a + while time, interval. ] For a while; for some time; for a short time. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- + wing. ] On the wing; flying; fluttering. Wallace. [ 1913 Webster ]