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Awfully

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

Awfulness

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

Awhape

To confound; to terrify; to amaze.

Awhile

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

Awing

On the wing; flying; fluttering.

Awk

Perversely; in the wrong way.

Awkly

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

Awkward

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.

Awl

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.

Awless

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear.

Awlwort

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

Awn

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

Awned

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

Awning

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

Awny

Having awns; bearded.

Awry

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.

Ax

To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

Axe Ax

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.

axenic

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

axerophthol

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.

Axial

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

Axially

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

Axil

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.

Axile

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

Axilla

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

Axillars Axillaries

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

Axillary

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

Axinite

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

Axinomancy

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

axiology

the study of values and value judgments.

Axiom

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./

Axiomatical Axiomatic

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

Axis

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.

Axle

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

Axled

Having an axle; -- used in composition.

Axletree

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

Axman

One who wields an ax.

Axminster carpet Axminster

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.

Axolotl

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

Axstone

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

Axunge

Fat; grease; esp. the fat of pigs or geese; lard prepared for medical use.

Ay

Same as Aye.

Ay Aye

Always; ever; continually; for an indefinite time.

Ayah

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

Aye

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

Aye-aye

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.

Ayegreen

The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum).

Ayme

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

Ayrshire

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

Ayuntamiento

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

Azadirachta

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

azadirachtin

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

Azalea

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

Azarole

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

azederach Azedarach

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.

azide

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

azido

relating to or containing the azido group -N3.

azidothymidine

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

Azimuth

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.

Azimuthal

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

Azobenzene

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

Azogue

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

Azoic

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.

Azole

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.

Azoleic

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

Azolla

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

Azollaceae

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

azonal

not divided into zones; -- opposite of zonal.

Azonic

Confined to no zone or region; not local.

Azorian

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

Azoted

Nitrogenized; nitrogenous.

azotemia

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

Azoth

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.

Azotic

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

Azotite

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

Azotize

To impregnate with azote, or nitrogen; to nitrogenize.

Azotometer

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

Azoturia

Excess of urea or other nitrogenous substances in the urine.

AZT

same as azidothymidine.

Aztec

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.

Azured

Of an azure color; sky-blue.

Azurine

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

Azurite

Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

Azygous

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

Azymite

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

B-52

A large long-range bomber airplane of the U. S. military aircraft fleet; B- stands for bomber. It has the capability of delivering nuclear weapons.

B-girl

a woman employed by a bar to act as a companion to men customers.

B-horizon

that layer of soil in a well-developed soil lying immediately below the A-horizon, and which contains deposits of organic matter leached from surface soils.

b-meson

an exceedingly short-lived meson.

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