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n. [ OE. avowe, F. avoué, fr. L. advocatus. See Advocate, Avowee, Avoyer. ] One who has an advowson. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a gentian of East North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.
Syn. -- ague weed, five-flowered gentian, stiff gentian, Gentianella quinquefolia, Gentiana quinquefolia [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a perennial herb of the southeastern U. S. having white-rayed flower heads. It was formerly used in folk medicine.
Syn. -- boneset, thoroughwort, Eupatorium perfoliatum [ WordNet 1.5 ]

pos>adv. By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. An approver or abettor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who allows or permits. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. having full power over all aspects of a situation.
Syn. -- almighty, omnipotent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. [ Pref. a- on + OE. morwe. See Morrow. ] 1. In the morning. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. On the following morning. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Answered p. pr. & vb. n. Answering. ] [ OE. andswerien, AS. andswerian, andswarian, to answer, fr. andswaru, n., answer. See Answer, n. ] 1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to (a question, remark, etc.); to respond to. [ 1913 Webster ]

She answers him as if she knew his mind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

So spake the apostate angel, though in pain: . . .
And him thus answered soon his bold compeer. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification, and the like; to refute. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man was able to answer him a word. Matt. xxii. 46. [ 1913 Webster ]

These shifts refuted, answer thine appellant. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

The reasoning was not and could not be answered. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be or act in return or response to. Hence: (a) To be or act in compliance with, in fulfillment or satisfaction of, as an order, obligation, demand; as, he answered my claim upon him; the servant answered the bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

This proud king . . . studies day and night
To answer all the debts he owes unto you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To render account to or for. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will . . . send him to answer thee. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To atone; to be punished for. [ 1913 Webster ]

And grievously hath Cæzar answered it. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) To be opposite to; to face. [ 1913 Webster ]

The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon them. Gilpin. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) To be or act an equivalent to, or as adequate or sufficient for; to serve for; to repay. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Money answereth all things. Eccles. x. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

(f) To be or act in accommodation, conformity, relation, or proportion to; to correspond to; to suit. [ 1913 Webster ]

Weapons must needs be dangerous things, if they answered the bulk of so prodigious a person. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To speak or write by way of return (originally, to a charge), or in reply; to make response. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was no voice, nor any that answered. 1 Kings xviii. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make a satisfactory response or return. Hence: To render account, or to be responsible; to be accountable; to make amends; as, the man must answer to his employer for the money intrusted to his care. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let his neck answer for it, if there is any martial law. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be or act in return. Hence: (a) To be or act by way of compliance, fulfillment, reciprocation, or satisfaction; to serve the purpose; as, gypsum answers as a manure on some soils. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do the strings answer to thy noble hand? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To be opposite, or to act in opposition. (c) To be or act as an equivalent, or as adequate or sufficient; as, a very few will answer. (d) To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; -- usually with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

That the time may have all shadow and silence in it, and the place answer to convenience. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If this but answer to my just belief,
I 'll remember you. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

As in water face answereth to face, so the heart of man to man. Prov. xxvii. 19. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. andsware, AS. andswaru; and against + swerian to swear. √177, 196. See Anti-, and Swear, and cf. 1st un-. ] 1. A reply to a charge; a defense. [ 1913 Webster ]

At my first answer no man stood with me. 2 Tim. iv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something said or written in reply to a question, a call, an argument, an address, or the like; a reply. [ 1913 Webster ]

A soft answer turneth away wrath. Prov. xv. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

I called him, but he gave me no answer. Cant. v. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something done in return for, or in consequence of, something else; a responsive action. [ 1913 Webster ]

Great the slaughter is
Here made by the Roman; great the answer be
Britons must take. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A solution, the result of a mathematical operation; as, the answer to a problem. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) A counter-statement of facts in a course of pleadings; a confutation of what the other party has alleged; a responsive declaration by a witness in reply to a question. In Equity, it is the usual form of defense to the complainant's charges in his bill. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Reply; rejoinder; response. See Reply. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. [ 1913 Webster ]

Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God? Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being answered or refuted; admitting a satisfactory answer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The argument, though subtle, is yet answerable. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Correspondent; conformable; hence, comparable. [ 1913 Webster ]

What wit and policy of man is answerable to their discreet and orderly course? Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Proportionate; commensurate; suitable; as, an achievement answerable to the preparation for it. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Equal; equivalent; adequate. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Had the valor of his soldiers been answerable, he had reached that year, as was thought, the utmost bounds of Britain. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who answers. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) [ A corruption of ache-weed; F. ache. So named from the likeness of its leaves to those of ache (celery). ] Goutweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. aswebban; a + swebban. See Sweven. ] To stupefy. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. or prep. [ See Atwain, and cf. Between. ] Between. [ Archaic ] Spenser. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- A*vow"ed*ly adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ F. avoué. Cf. Advowee, Advocate, n. ] The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who avows or asserts. [ 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 ]

adj. aligned from front to back; slanted toward the back; -- used of hair.
Syn. -- sweptback. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Arch.) An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large towel used to dry oneself after a bath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. clothing to be worn at a beach. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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

n. One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. bitelbrowed; cf. OE. bitel, adj., sharp, projecting, n., a beetle. See Beetle an insect. ] Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The earlier meaning was, “Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows.” [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers. Hobbes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bejeweled or Bejewelled p. pr. & vb. n. Bejeweling or Bejewelling. ] To ornament with a jewel or with jewels; to spangle. “Bejeweled hands.” Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Campanula; -- so named from its bell-shaped flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bellefleur, lit., beautiful flower. ] A kind of apple. The yellow bellflower is a large, yellow winter apple. [ Written also bellefleur. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. 1. A wether, or sheep, which leads the flock, with a bell on his neck. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A leader. [ Contemptuous ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that bestows. [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ OE. bytwene, bitweonen, AS. betweónan, betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twā two, akin to Goth. tweihnai two apiece. See Twain, and cf. Atween, Betwixt. ] 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of two. [ 1913 Webster ]

If things should go so between them. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Belonging in common to two; shared by both. [ 1913 Webster ]

Castor and Pollux with only one soul between them. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. [ 1913 Webster ]

An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. With relation to two, as involved in an act or attribute of which another is the agent or subject; as, to judge between or to choose between courses; to distinguish between you and me; to mediate between nations. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. In intermediate relation to, in respect to time, quantity, or degree; as, between nine and ten o'clock. [ 1913 Webster ]

Between decks, the space, or in the space, between the decks of a vessel. --
Between ourselves,
Between you and me,
Between themselves, in confidence; with the understanding that the matter is not to be communicated to others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Between, Among. Between etymologically indicates only two; as, a quarrel between two men or two nations; to be between two fires, etc. It is however extended to more than two in expressing a certain relation. I . . . hope that between public business, improving studies, and domestic pleasures, neither melancholy nor caprice will find any place for entrance. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ] Among implies a mass or collection of things or persons, and always supposes more than two; as, the prize money was equally divided among the ship's crew. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Intermediate time or space; interval. [ Poetic & R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]