awls

n. [ OE. aul, awel, al, AS. &aemacr_;l, awel; akin to Icel. alr, OHG. āla, G. ahle, Lith. yla, Skr. ārā. ] A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. “Awless insolence.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inspiring no awe. [ Obs. ] “The awless throne.” Shak. [ Written also aweless ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. 1. Shaped like an awl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Nat. Hist.) Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Awl + wort. ] (Bot.) A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bawled (b&asuml_;ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Bawling. ] [ Icel. baula to low, bellow, as a cow; akin to Sw. böla; cf. AS bellan, G. bellen to bark, E. bellow, bull. ] 1. To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cry loudly, as a child from pain or vexation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To proclaim with a loud voice, or by outcry, as a hawker or town-crier does. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A loud, prolonged cry; an outcry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bawls. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Brawled p. pr. & vb. n. Brawling. ] [ OE. braulen to quarrel, boast, brallen to cry, make a noise; cf. LG. brallen to brag, MHG. pr&unr_;ulen, G. prahlen, F. brailler to cry, shout, Pr. brailar, braillar, W. bragal to vociferate, brag, Armor. bragal to romp, to strut, W. broliaw to brag, brawl boast. &unr_;95. ] 1. To quarrel noisily and outrageously. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To complain loudly; to scold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make a loud confused noise, as the water of a rapid stream running over stones. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the brook brawls along the painful road. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To wrangle; squabble; contend. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult; as, a drunken brawl. [ 1913 Webster ]

His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Noise; quarrel; uproar; row; tumult. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One that brawls; wrangler. [ 1913 Webster ]

Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. [ 1913 Webster ]

She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Making a loud confused noise. See Brawl, v. i., 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brawling stream. J. S. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a brawling manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of claws. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having a base shaped like a claw; -- of flower petals. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Crawled p. pr. & vb. n. Crawling. ] [ Dan. kravle, or Icel. krafla, to paw, scrabble with the hands; akin to Sw. kräla to crawl; cf. LG. krabbeln, D. krabbelen to scratch. ] 1. To move slowly by drawing the body along the ground, as a worm; to move slowly on hands and knees; to creep. [ 1913 Webster ]

A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to move or advance in a feeble, slow, or timorous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was hardly able to crawl about the room. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

The meanest thing that crawl'd beneath my eyes. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To advance slowly and furtively; to insinuate one's self; to advance or gain influence by servile or obsequious conduct. [ 1913 Webster ]

Secretly crawling up the battered walls. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hath crawled into the favor of the king. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Absurd opinions crawl about the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To have a sensation as of insect creeping over the body; as, the flesh crawls. See Creep, v. i., 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act or motion of crawling; slow motion, as of a creeping animal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Kraal. ] A pen or inclosure of stakes and hurdles on the seacoast, for holding fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Swimming) A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Creepy. [ Colloq. ]

n. (Shipbuilding) Same as Cross-spale. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Drawled p. pr. & vb. n. Drawling. ] [ Prob. fr. draw: cf. D. dralen to linger, tarry, Icel. dralla to loiter. See Draw, and cf. Draggle. ] To utter in a slow, lengthened tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To speak with slow and lingering utterance, from laziness, lack of spirit, affectation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Theologians and moralists . . . talk mostly in a drawling and dreaming way about it. Landor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A housebreaker or thief. [ Obs. ] Old Play (1631). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of speaking with a drawl; a drawl. -- Drawl"ing*ly, adv. Bacon. [1913 Webster]

n. Same as Drawbar (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A species of damask made on the drawloom. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Free from flaws. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Contrary to, or unauthorized by, law; illegal; as, a lawless claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

He needs no indirect nor lawless course. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not subject to, or restrained by, the law of morality or of society; as, lawless men or behavior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not subject to the laws of nature; uncontrolled. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or, meteorlike, flame lawless through the void. Pope.

-- Law"less*ly, adv. -- Law"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. See Mewl, and Miaul. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Nall. ] An awl. [ Obs. ] usser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; an earthworm. It often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet, and is used as bait by anglers. The term is used mostly in the northern and western U. S.
Syn. -- earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, fishing worm, wiggler, nightwalker, dew worm, red worm. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ W. pawl a pole, a stake. Cf. Pole a stake. ] (Mach.) A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. [ Written also paul, or pall. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Pawl bitt (Naut.), a heavy timber, set abaft the windlass, to receive the strain of the pawls. --
Pawl rim or
Pawl ring (Naut.), a stationary metallic ring surrounding the base of a capstan, having notches for the pawls to catch in. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To stop with a pawl; to drop the pawls off. [ 1913 Webster ]

To pawl the capstan. See under Capstan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. 1 to go from one pub or tavern to the next and get progressively more drunk.
Syn. -- bar hop. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. 1. In a raw manner; unskillfully; without experience. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Without proper preparation or provision. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To write unskillfully and inelegantly. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though with a golden pen you scrawl. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. See Crawl. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Scrawled p. pr. & vb. n. Scrawling. ] [ Probably corrupted from scrabble. ] To draw or mark awkwardly and irregularly; to write hastily and carelessly; to scratch; to scribble; as, to scrawl a letter. [ 1913 Webster ]

His name, scrawled by himself. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Unskillful or inelegant writing; that which is unskillfully or inelegantly written. [ 1913 Webster ]

The left hand will make such a scrawl, that it will not be legible. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

You bid me write no more than a scrawl to you. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Per. & Hind. shāl: cf. F. châle. ] A square or oblong cloth of wool, cotton, silk, or other textile or netted fabric, used, especially by women, as a loose covering for the neck and shoulders. [ 1913 Webster ]

India shawl, a kind of rich shawl made in India from the wool of the Cashmere goat. It is woven in pieces, which are sewed together. --
Shawl goat (Zool.), the Cashmere goat. [ 1913 Webster ]