*awn*

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

n. [ OE. awn, agune, from Icel. ögn, pl. agnir; akin to Sw. agn, Dan. avne, Goth. ahana, OHG. agana, G. agen, ahne, chaff, Gr. 'a`chnh, AS. egla; prob. from same root as E. acute. See 3d Ear. √1. ] (Bot.) The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Origin uncertain: cf. F. auvent awing, or Pers. āwan, āwang, anything suspended, or LG. havening a place sheltered from wind and weather, E. haven. ] 1. A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with an awning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without awns or beard. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having awns; bearded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ir. & Gael. babhun inclosure, bulwark. ] 1. An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A large house. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. braon fleshy part, muscle, fr. HG. br&unr_;to flesh, G. braten roast meat; akin to Icel. br&unr_;&unr_; flesh, food of beasts, AS. br&unr_;de roast meat, br&unr_;dan to roast, G. braten, and possibly to E. breed. ] 1. A muscle; flesh. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Formed well of brawns and of bones. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The flesh of a boar; also, the salted and prepared flesh of a boar. [ 1913 Webster ]

The best age for the boar is from two to five years, at which time it is best to geld him, or sell him for brawn. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A boar. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Brawny; strong; muscular. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A boor killed for the table. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being brawny. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. “Brawny limbs.” W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Muscular; fleshy; strong; bulky; sinewy; athletic; stalwart; powerful; robust. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sucked by cubs. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Cyprus. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Dawned p. pr. & vb. n. Dawning. ] [ OE. dawnen, dawen, dagen, daien, AS. dagian to become day, to dawn, fr. dæg day; akin to D. dagen, G. tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See Day. √71. ] 1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand. “In dawning youth.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

When life awakes, and dawns at every line. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. Heber, [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the morning; show of approaching sunrise. [ 1913 Webster ]

And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon,
No dawn, no dusk, no proper time of day. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning; rise. “The dawn of time.” Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of serenity over the soul. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. the first light of day; dawn.
Syn. -- dawn, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. p. & a. See Draw, v. t. & i. [ 1913 Webster ]

Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. --
Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. --
Drawn game or
Drawn battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. --
Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. --
Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from fine cloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. ornamental needlework done by drawing threads to form lacelike patterns. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To harden. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh. Nash. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- + pawn. Cf. Impawn. ] To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of a fawn; fawn-colored. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. faon the young one of any beast, a fawn, F. faon a fawn, for fedon, fr. L. fetus. See Fetus. ] 1. (Zool.) A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The young of an animal; a whelp. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The tigress ] . . . followeth . . . after her fawns. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A fawn color. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Cf. F. faonner. ] To bring forth a fawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fawned p. pr. & vb. n. Fawning. ] [ OE. fawnen, fainen, fagnien, to rejoice, welcome, flatter, AS. fægnian to rejoice; akin to Icel. fagna to rejoice, welcome. See Fain. ] To court favor by low cringing, frisking, etc., as a dog; to flatter meanly; -- often followed by on or upon. [ 1913 Webster ]

You showed your teeth like apes, and fawned like hounds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou with trembling fear,
Or like a fawning parasite, obeyest. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Courtiers who fawn on a master while they betray him. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A servile cringe or bow; mean flattery; sycophancy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the color of a fawn; light yellowish brown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fawns; a sycophant. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fawning manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. flaon, F. flan, LL. flado, fr. OHG. flado, G. fladen, a sort of pancake; cf. Gr. &unr_; broad. See Place. ] A sort of flat custard or pie. [ Obs. ] Tusser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. gallon. ] A small tub or lading vessel. [ Prov. Eng. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gauntree. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impawned p. pr. & vb. n. Impawning. ] [ Pref. im- + pawn: cf. Empawn. ] To put in pawn; to pledge; to pawn. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Drawn in. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. See Yawn. [ Obs. ] Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An inn. [ Turkey ] See Khan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. laund, launde, F. lande heath, moor; of Celtic origin; cf. W. llan an open, clear place, llawnt a smooth rising hill, lawn, Armor. lann or lan territory, country, lann a prickly plant, pl. lannou heath, moor. ] 1. An open space between woods. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Orchard lawns and bowery hollows.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ground (generally in front of or around a house) covered with grass kept closely mown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lawn mower, a machine for clipping the short grass of lawns. --
Lawn tennis, a variety of the game of tennis, played in the open air, sometimes upon a lawn, instead of in a tennis court. See Tennis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Earlier laune lynen, i. e., lawn linen; prob. from the town Laon in France. ] A very fine linen (or sometimes cotton) fabric with a rather open texture. Lawn is used for the sleeves of a bishop's official dress in the English Church, and, figuratively, stands for the office itself. [ 1913 Webster ]

A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Obs. ] See Laund. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a lawn; characterized by a lawn or by lawns; like a lawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

Musing through the lawny park. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made of lawn or fine linen. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Extended to a great length.
Syn. -- long-drawn-out. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cicadae hushed their long-drawn, ear-splitting strains. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. relatively long in duration; as, a long-drawn-out visit from my mother-in-law.
Syn. -- drawn-out, extended, prolonged, protracted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Same as Squilla.
Syn. -- Mantis shrimp. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Tamil milagu-tannīr pepper water. ] An East Indian curry soup. [ 1913 Webster ]