English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Awninged (a.)

Furnished with an awning.

Awnless (a.)

Without awns or beard.

Awny (a.)

Having awns; bearded.

Awoke (imp.)

of Awake

Awoke

of Awake

Awoken

of Awake

Awork (adv.)

At work; in action.

Aworking (adv.)

At work; in action.

Awreak (v. t. & i.)

Alt. of Awreke

Awreke (v. t. & i.)

To avenge. [Obs.] See Wreak.

Awrong (adv.)

Wrongly.

Awry (adv. & a.)

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.

Awry (adv. & a.)

Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.

Awsome (a.)

Same as Awesome.

Ax (n.)

Alt. of Axe

Ax (v. t. & i.)

To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

Axal (a.)

[See Axial.]

Axe

Alt. of Axeman

Axe (n.)

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.

Axeman

See Ax, Axman.