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n. Award. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (a) A stretched wire or rope elevated above the ground and forming a way along which a trolley may travel, for conveying a load suspended from the trolley. (b) An elevated cableway. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } adv. [ AS. æfteweard, a., behind. See Aft, and -ward (suffix). The final s in afterwards is adverbial, orig. a genitive ending. ] At a later or succeeding time. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. (Naut.) Toward the stern. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Back again. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Toward the air; upward. [ R. ] Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. the medium of transmission of signals by radio or television stations; by radio transmission; -- used non-technically; as, over the airwaves, i. e. by radio or television. [ PJC ]

n. 1. a duct that provides ventilation, as in mines.
Syn. -- air passage, air duct. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ ‖‖ } n. [ Written also ajwain. ] [ Prob. native name. ] (Bot.) The fruit of Ammi Copticum, syn. Carum Ajowan, used both as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

pos>n. An alley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. allouable. ] 1. Praiseworthy; laudable. [ Obs. ] Hacket. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Proper to be, or capable of being, allowed; permissible; admissible; not forbidden; not unlawful or improper; as, a certain degree of freedom is allowable among friends. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an allowable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. alouance. ] 1. Approval; approbation. [ Obs. ] Crabbe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of allowing, granting, conceding, or admitting; authorization; permission; sanction; tolerance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Without the king's will or the state's allowance. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Acknowledgment. [ 1913 Webster ]

The censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theater of others. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. License; indulgence. [ Obs. ] Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which is allowed; a share or portion allotted or granted; a sum granted as a reimbursement, a bounty, or as appropriate for any purpose; a stated quantity, as of food or drink; hence, a limited quantity of meat and drink, when provisions fall short. [ 1913 Webster ]

I can give the boy a handsome allowance. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Abatement; deduction; the taking into account of mitigating circumstances; as, to make allowance for the inexperience of youth. [ 1913 Webster ]

After making the largest allowance for fraud. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (com.) A customary deduction from the gross weight of goods, different in different countries, such as tare and tret. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Allowancing ] [ See Allowance, n. ] To put upon a fixed allowance (esp. of provisions and drink); to supply in a fixed and limited quantity; as, the captain was obliged to allowance his crew; our provisions were allowanced. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Always. [ Archaic or Poetic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I would not live alway. Job vii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ All + way. The s is an adverbial (orig. a genitive) ending. ] 1. At all times; ever; perpetually; throughout all time; continually; as, God is always the same. [ 1913 Webster ]

Even in Heaven his [ Mammon's ] looks and thoughts. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Constancy during a certain period, or regularly at stated intervals; invariably; uniformly; -- opposed to sometimes or occasionally. [ 1913 Webster ]

He always rides a black galloway. Bulwer. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Naut.) A detail of one or more men who keep watch on deck at night when a vessel is at anchor. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. (Zool.) A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. Anywise; at all. Tennyson. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A way or passage under an arch. [ 1913 Webster ]

, adv. [ Prob. a corruption of arriswise. See Arris. ] Placed in such a position as to exhibit the top and two sides, the corner being in front; -- said of a rectangular form. Encyc. Brit. Cussans. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. See Assuage. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him straight. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely. [ 1913 Webster ]

All athwart there came
A post from Wales loaden with heavy news. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ Pref. a- + thwart. ] 1. Across; from side to side of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. [ 1913 Webster ]

Athwart hawse, across the stem of another vessel, whether in contact or at a small distance. --
Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; -- opposed to fore and aft. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ OE. atwaine, atwinne; pref. a- + twain. ] In twain; asunder. [ Obs. or Poetic ] “Cuts atwain the knots.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Awkward. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence. Donne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of avowing; avowal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Upholding; defense; vindication. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me? Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. Cowell. [ 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 ]