*awb*

n. A trinket. See Bauble. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Insignificant; contemptible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A well known light red variety of American grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A light-colored, sprightly American wine from the Catawba grape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Catawba. (Ethnol.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flattering; sycophantic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Like a clawback parasite. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To flatter. [ Obs. ] Warner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flatterer or sycophant. [ Obs. ] “Take heed of these clawbacks.” Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A loss of advantage, or deduction from profit, value, success, etc.; a discouragement or hindrance; objectionable feature. [ 1913 Webster ]

The avarice of Henry VII . . . . must be deemed a drawback from the wisdom ascribed to him. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Com.) Money paid back or remitted; especially, a certain amount of duties or customs, sometimes the whole, and sometimes only a part, remitted or paid back by the government, on the exportation of the commodities on which they were levied. M&unr_;Culloch. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Railroad) (a) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train. (b) A bar of iron with an eye at each end, or a heavy link, for coupling a locomotive to a tender or car. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Engin.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Joinery) A hole bored through a tenon nearer to the shoulder than the holes through the cheeks are to the edge or abutment against which the shoulder is to rest, so that a pin or bolt, when driven into it, will draw these parts together. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make a drawbore in; as, to drawbore a tenon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To enlarge the bore of a gun barrel by drawing, instead of thrusting, a revolving tool through it. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Weaving) A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The movable portion, or draw, is called, specifically, a bascule, balance, or lifting bridge, a turning, swivel, or swing bridge, or a rolling bridge, according as it turns on a hinge vertically, or on a pivot horizontally, or is pushed on rollers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A baby; a dunce. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. jawboned p. pr. & vb. n. jawboning. ] To attempt to influence solely by talking, as contrasted with threatening or inducing by other means, e.g. legislation; esp. to make public appeals in order to influence the behavior of businessmen or labor leaders; -- used especially of the President or other high government officials; as, to jawbone businessmen into forgoing price increases. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- jaw"bon*ing, n. [PJC]

n. One who disobeys the law; someone who violates the law; a criminal.
Syn. -- violator, lawbreaker, law breaker, perpetrator. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

-- Law"break`ing, n. & a. [1913 Webster]

a. Rawboned. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having little flesh on the bones; gaunt. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The alewife. [ Local, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The merganser. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A nickname for a surgeon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A sawhorse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Colloq., from the Roman X for ten, like the support of a sawbuck. ] a ten-dollar bill; also,
double sawbuck, a twenty-dollar bill. [ PJC ]

n. (Bot.) A local name for the partridge berry; also, for the deerberry. [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. streáwberige; streáw straw + berie berry; perhaps from the resemblance of the runners of the plant to straws. ] (Bot.) A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, Fragaria vesca. There are also other less common species. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strawberry bass. (Zool.) See Calico bass, under Calico. --
Strawberry blite. (Bot.) See under Blite. --
Strawberry borer (Zool.), any one of several species of insects whose larvae burrow in the crown or roots of the strawberry vine. Especially: (a) The root borer (Anarsia lineatella), a very small dark gray moth whose larvae burrow both in the larger roots and crown, often doing great damage. (b) The crown borer (Tyloderma fragariae), a small brown weevil whose larva burrows in the crown and kills the plant. --
Strawberry bush (Bot.), an American shrub (Euonymus Americanus), a kind of spindle tree having crimson pods and the seeds covered with a scarlet aril. --
Strawberry crab (Zool.), a small European spider crab (Eurynome aspera); -- so called because the back is covered with pink tubercles. --
Strawberry fish (Zool.), the amadavat. --
Strawberry geranium (Bot.), a kind of saxifrage (Saxifraga sarmentosa) having reniform leaves, and producing long runners like those of the strawberry. --
Strawberry leaf. (a) The leaf of the strawberry. (b) The symbol of the rank or estate of a duke, because the ducal coronet is twined with strawberry leaves. “The strawberry leaves on her chariot panels are engraved on her ladyship's heart.” Thackeray. --
Strawberry-leaf roller (Zool.), any one of several species of moths whose larvae roll up, and feed upon, the leaves of the strawberry vine; especially, Phoxopteris fragariae, and Eccopsis permundana. --
Strawberry moth (Zool.), any one of several species of moth whose larvae feed on the strawberry vines; as: (a) The smeared dagger (Apatela oblinita), whose large hairy larva is velvety black with two rows of bright yellow spots on each side. (b) A geometrid (Angerona crocataria) which is yellow with dusky spots on the wings. Called also currant moth. --
Strawberry pear (Bot.), the red ovoid fruit of a West Indian plant of the genus Cereus (Cereus triangularia). It has a sweetish flavor, and is slightly acid, pleasant, and cooling. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. --
Strawberry sawfly (Zool.), a small black sawfly (Emphytus maculatus) whose larva eats the leaves of the strawberry vine. --
Strawberry tomato. (Bot.) See Alkekengi. --
Strawberry tree. (Bot.) See Arbutus. --
Strawberry vine (Bot.), the plant which yields the strawberry. --
Strawberry worm (Zool.), the larva of any moth which feeds on the strawberry vine. [ 1913 Webster ]