a family name used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia.

A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.

Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.

See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.

Rearing and care of birds.

Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.

Avid.

Eagerly; greedily.

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.

Emulously.

A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator.

The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

See Avocado.

To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

Advice; opinion; deliberation.

To consider; to reflect.

Watchful; circumspect.

Advisedly.

Advisement; observation; deliberation.

Vision.

Information; advice.

The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.

An advocate.

To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

A calling away; a diversion.

That which calls aside; a dissuasive.

To retire; to withdraw.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.

The act of annulling; annulment.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.

Unavoidable; inevitable.

Goods sold by weight.

To call from or back again.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale.

The act of flying; flight; evaporation.

Same as Avocet.

A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is Recurvirostra Americana.

Evidence; declaration.

Capable of being avouched.

One who avouches.

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

See Advoutrer.

Adultery.

A vow or determination.

Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence.

An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

Act of avowing; avowal.

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.

The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

One who avows or asserts.

An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

Adultery. See Advoutry.

A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.

To pluck or pull off.

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.

Of or pertaining to an uncle.

A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.

expected. Opposite of unexpected.

Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

One who, or that which, awakens.

The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

An awakening.

Missing; wanting.

A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.

Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.

To warn.

Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore; flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it; -- of an anchor, etc.

From a place; hence.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops.

the state of being elsewhere than in particular place.

Turned away; away.

To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.

Awe-struck.

Struck with awe.

Wearied.

Weary.

On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather!

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

See Awless.

Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.

The quality of being awesome.

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.

To confound; to terrify; to amaze.

For a while; for some time; for a short time.

On the wing; flying; fluttering.

Perversely; in the wrong way.

In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner.

Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.

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.

Shaped like an awl.

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear.

The quality of being awless.

A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves.

See Aam.

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded.

A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

Furnished with an awning.

Without awns or beard.

Having awns; bearded.

At work; in action.

At work; in action.

To avenge.

Wrongly.

Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.

Same as Awesome.

To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

[See Axial.]

A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

raised under sterile conditions; -- of experimental animals; as, axenic conditions.

a vitamin essential for normal vision (C20H30O); it prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes; same as vitamin A. One U.S.P. unit of vitamin A is equivalent to 0.30 micrograms of pure vitamin A alcohol.

Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

In relation to, or in a line with, an axis; in the axial (magnetic) line.

The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.