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.

The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

Axillary.

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.

A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.

of or pertaining to axiology.

the study of values and value judgments.

A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, /The whole is greater than a part;/ /A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be./

Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms.

By the use of axioms; in the form of an axiom.

A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

The pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel.

Having an axle; -- used in composition.

A bar or beam of wood or iron, connecting the opposite wheels of a carriage, on the ends of which the wheels revolve.

One who wields an ax.

A variety of Turkey carpet, woven by machine or, when more than 27 inches wide, on a hand loom, and consisting of strips of worsted chenille so colored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made. A similar but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material.

An amphibian of the salamander tribe found in the elevated lakes of Mexico; the siredon.

A variety of jade. It is used by some savages, particularly the natives of the South Sea Islands, for making axes or hatchets.

Axle or axletree.

Same as Aye.

Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.

A native nurse for children; also, a lady's maid.

An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, /To call for the ayes and noes;/ /The ayes have it./

A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum).

Again; back against.

Backward.

A grandfather.

The utterance of the ejaculation /Ay me !/ [Obs.] See Ay, interj.

Beyond.

Beyond.

One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

See Aerie.

In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.

a genus of large important East Indian trees: the neem trees.

a triterpenoid (C35H44O16) isolated from the seeds of the neem tree (Azadirachta indica), used as an insecticide.

A genus of showy flowering shrubs, mostly natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

The Neapolitan medlar (Crat/gus azarolus), a shrub of southern Europe; also, its fruit.

a handsome tree (Melia azedarach) of the mahogany family, native to Northern India and China, having long clusters of fragrant purple blossoms and small ornamental but inedible yellow fruits. It has been naturalized as a shade tree and is common in the southern United States; -- called also, chinaberry, China tree, Pride of India, Pride of China, and Bead tree.

a country in the Caucuses, formerly an Asian Soviet.

a native or inhabitant of Azerbaijan.

any chemical compound containing the azido group -N3, such as sodium azide (ionic and inorganic) or ethyl azide (organic and nonionic).

relating to or containing the azido group -N3.

an antiviral drug, (C10H13N5O4) used in the treatment of AIDS. It has the generic name of zidovudine.

The quadrant of an azimuth circle. An arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.

A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible.

Lit.: Quicksilver Silver ores suitable for treatment by amalgamation with mercury.

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks.

Any of a large class of compounds characterized by a five-membered ring which contains an atom of nitrogen and at least one other noncarbon atom (nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur). The prefixes furo-, thio, and pyrro- are used to distinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfuran, thiophene, and pyrrol by replacement of the CH group by nitrogen; as, furo-monazole. Names exactly analogous to those for the azines are also used; as, oxazole, diazole, etc.

Pertaining to an acid produced by treating oleic with nitric acid.

a genus of ferns, someties placed in its own family Azollaceae.

a family designation used in some classifications for the genus Azolla.

not divided into zones; -- opposite of zonal.

Confined to no zone or region; not local.

Of or pertaining to the Azores. A native of the Azores.

A switch or whip.

Nitrogenized; nitrogenous.

the accumulation of an abnormally large amount of nitrogen-containing waste products, such as urea, in the blood; uremia.

of or pertaining to azotemia.

The first principle of metals, i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them. The universal remedy of Paracelsus.

Pertaining to azote, or nitrogen; formed or consisting of azote; nitric; as, azotic gas; azotic acid.

A salt formed by the combination of azotous, or nitrous, acid with a base; a nitrite.

To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.

An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.

Nitrous; as, azotous acid.

Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine.

same as azidothymidine.

Of or relating to one of the early races in Mexico that inhabited the great plateau of that country at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1519. One of the Aztec race or people.

To color blue.

Of an azure color; sky-blue.

Of a fine blue color; azure.

The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus c/ruleus); -- so called from its color.

Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

Azure.

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

Unleavened bread.

Azymous.

One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.