AWA'IT, verb transitive [a and wait. See Wait.]
Literally, to remain, hold or stay.
1. To wait for; to look for, or expect.
Betwixt the rocky pillars, Gabriel sat,
Chief of the Angelic guards, awaiting night.
2. To be in store for; to attend; to be ready for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.
AWA'IT, noun Ambush; in a state of waiting for.
AWA'ITING, participle present tense Waiting for; looking for; expecting; being ready or in store for.
AWA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense awoke, awaked; participle passive awaked. [The Latin vigilo seems to be formed on this root. See Wake.]
1. To rouse from asleep.
I go that I may awake him out of sleep. John 11:11.
2. To excite from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity or inaction; to put into action, or new life; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
AWA'KE, verb intransitive
1. To cease to sleep; to come from a state of natural sleep.
Jacob awaked out of sleep. Genesis 28:16.
2. To bestir, revive or rouse from a state of inaction; to be invigorated with new life; as, the mind awakes from its stupidity.
Awake, O sword, against my shepherd. Zechariah 13:7.
3. To rouse from spiritual sleep.
Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Ephesians 5:14.
Awake to righteousness. 1 Corinthians 15:34.
4. To rise from the dead. Job 14:12.
AWA'KE, adjective Not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action.
AWA'KEN, verb transitive awa'kn. This is the word awake, with its Saxon infinitive. It is transitive or intransitive; but more frequently transitive, as awake is more frequently intransitive. its significations are the same as those of awake.
AWA'KENED, participle passive Roused from sleep, in a natural or moral sense.
AWA'KENER, noun He or that which awakens.
AWA'KENING, noun A revival of religion, or more general attention to religion, than usual.
AWARD', verb transitive [See Guard and Regard.]
To adjudge; to give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign by sentence. This word is appropriately used to express the act of arbitrators in pronouncing upon the rights of parties; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to adjective B.
AWARD', verb intransitive To judge; to determine; to make an award
AWARD', noun
1. The judgment, or determination of arbitrators, or the paper containing it.
2. Judgment; sentence; determination of points submitted to arbitrators.
AWARD'ED, participle passive Adjudged, or given by judicial sentence, or by the decision of arbitrators.
AWARD'ER, noun One that awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.
AWARD'ING, participle present tense Adjudging; assigning by judicial sentence; determining.
AWA'RE, adjective [See Ware and Wary.]
Watchful; vigilant; guarded; but more strictly in modern usage, apprised; expecting an event from information, or probability; as, the general was aware of the enemy's designs.
AWA'RE, verb intransitive To beware; to be cautious. [Not legitimate.]
AWARN', verb transitive To warn, which see.
AWAT'CHA, noun A bird of Kamtchatka, enumerated by Pennant, among the warblers. The upper parts of the body are of a deep brown color; the throat and breast white, with black spots.
AWA'Y, adverb [See Way.]
1. Absent; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
Have me away for I am wounded. 2 Chronicles 35:23.
2. It is much used with words signifying moving or going from; as, go away send away run away etc.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast.
Love hath wings and will away
3. As an exclamation, it is a command or invitation to depart; away that is, be gone, or let us go. 'Away with him.' Take him away
4. With verbs, it serves to modify their sense and form peculiar phrases; as,
To throw away to cast from, to give up, dissipate or foolishly destroy.
To trifle away to lose or expend in trifles, or in idleness.
To drink away to squander away etc., to dissipate in drinking or extravagance.
To make away is to kill or destroy.
5. away with has a peculiar signification in the phrase, 'I cannot away with it.' Isaiah 1:4. The sense is, 'I cannot bear or endure it.'
AWE, noun aw. [Gr. to be astonished.]
1. Fear mingled with admiration or reverence; reverential fear.
Stand in awe and sin not. Psalms 4:4.
2. Fear; dread inspired by something great, or terrific.
AWE, verb transitive To strike with fear and reverence; to influence by fear, terror or respect; as, his majesty awed them into silence.
AWE'ARY, adjective Weary, which see.
AWEATHER, adverb aweth'er. [a and weather.]
On the weather-side, or towards the wind; as, the helm is aweather; opposed to alee.
AW'ED, participle passive Struck with fear; influenced by fear or reverence.
AWEIGH', adverb [a and weigh.] Atrip. The anchor is aweigh when it is just drawn out of the ground, and hangs perpendicular. [See Atrip.]
AWE'STRUCK, adjective Impressed or struck with awe.
AWFUL, adjective [awe and full.]
1. That strikes with awe; that fills with profound reverence; as the awful majesty of Jehovah.
2. That fills with terror and dread; as the awful approach of death.
3. Struck with awe; scrupulous.
A weak and awful reverence for antiquity.
Shakespeare uses it for worshipful, inspiring respect by authority or dignity.
Our common people use this word in the sense of frightful, ugly, detestable.
AW'FULLY, adverb In a manner to fill with awe; in a reverential manner.
AW'FULNESS, noun
1. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; solemnity; as, 'the awfulness of this sacred place.'
2. The state of being struck with awe.
A help to prayer, producing in us reverence and awfulness
[Not legitimate.]
AWHAPE, verb transitive awhap'. To strike; to confound. obsolete
[This is our vulgar shop.]
AWHILE, adverb [a and while, time, or interval.]
A space of time; for some time; for a short time.
AWK, adjective
1. Odd; out of order.
2. Clumsy in performance, or manners; unhandy; not dexterous. [Vulgar.]
AWK'WARD, adjective [awk and ward.]
1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands or of instruments; unready; not dexterous; bungling; untoward.
2. Inelegant; unpolite; ungraceful in manners; clumsy; unnatural; bad.
AWK'WARDLY, adverb Clumsily; in a rude or bungling manner; inelegantly; badly.
AWK'WARDNESS, noun Clumsiness; ungracefulness in manners; want of dexterity in the use of the hands or instruments; unsuitableness.
AWL, noun
An iron instrument for piercing small holes in leather, for sewing and stitching; used by shoemakers, sadlers, etc. The blade is either straight, or a little bent and flattened.
AW'LESS, adjective [awe and less.]
1. Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear; as awless insolence.
2. Wanting the power of causing reverence; not exciting awe; as an awless throne.
AWL'WORT, noun [awl and wort. See Wort.]
The popular name of the Subularia aquatica, or rough leaved alyssum; so called from its awl-shaped leaves, which grow in clusters round the root. It is a native of Britain and Ireland.
AWM,
AWN, noun [Gr.]
The beard of corn or grass, as it is usually understood. But technically, a slender sharp process issuing from the chaff or glume in corn and grasses.
AWN, n. [Gr.]
The beard of corn or grass, as it is usually understood. But technically, a slender sharp process issuing from the chaff or glume in corn and grasses.AWN'ING, noun
1. A cover of canvas, usually a sail or tarpaulin, spread over a boat or ship's deck, to shelter from the sun's rays, the officers and crew, and preserve the decks.
2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulk head of the cabin.
AWN'LESS, adjective Without awn or beard.
AWN'Y, adjective Having awns' full of beard.
AWO'KE, The preterit of awake.
AWORK', adverb
At work; in a state of labor or action. [Not used.]
AWORK'ING, adverb At work; into a state of working or action.
AWRY', adjective or adverb
1. Turned or twisted towards one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; asquint; with oblique vision; as, 'to glance a look awry; ' the lady's cap is awry
2. In a figurative sense, turned aside from the line of truth, or right reason; perverse or perversely.