Part 824

<blockquote>The sound is going <b>away</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Have me <b>away</b>, for I am sore wounded. <i>2 Chron. xxxv. 23.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Absent; gone; at a distance; <as>as, the master is <ex>away</ex> from home</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Aside; off; in another direction.</def>

<blockquote>The axis of rotation is inclined <b>away</b> from the sun. <i>Lockyer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>From a state or condition of being; out of existence.</def>

<blockquote>Be near me when I fade <b>away</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come ~; begone; take ~.</def>

<blockquote>And the Lord said . . . <b>Away</b>, get thee down. <i>Exod. xix. 24.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; <as>as, sing <ex>away</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<note>&hand; It is much used in phrases signifying moving or going from; as, go <i>away</i>, run <i>away</i>, etc.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither <i>away</i> so fast ? "Love hath wings, and will <i>away</i>." <i>Waller</i>. It serves to modify the sense of certain verbs by adding that of removal, loss, parting with, etc.; as, to throw <i>away</i>; to trifle <i>away</i>; to squander <i>away</i>, etc. Sometimes it has merely an intensive force; as, to blaze <i>away</i>.</note>

<cs><col>Away with</col>, <cd>bear, abide</cd>. <mark>[Obs. or Archaic]</mark> "The calling of assemblies, I can not <ex>away with</ex>." (<i>Isa. i. 13</i></blockquote>), i. e., "I can not bear or endure ." -- <col>Away with</col> <cd>one, signifies, take him <i>away<i>. "<i>Away<i> with, crucify him." <i>John xix. 15</i>.</cd> -- <col>To make away with</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> To kill or destroy. <sd>(b)</sd> To carry off.</cd></cs>

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<h1>Away-going</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw>A*way"-go"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops.</def>

<i>Wharton.</i>

<h1>Awayward</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw>A*way"ward</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>Turned away; away.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Awe</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw>Awe</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>a<?/e</ets>, <ets>aghe</ets>, fr. Icel. <ets>agi</ets>; akin to AS. <ets>ege</ets>, <ets><?/ga</ets>, Goth. <ets>agis</ets>, Dan. <ets>ave</ets> chastisement, fear, Gr. <?/ pain, distress, from the same root as E. <ets>ail</ets>. <?/3. Cf. <er>Ugly</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Dread; great fear mingled with respect.</def> <mark>[Obs. or Obsolescent]</mark>

<blockquote>His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of <b>awe</b>. <i>Cowper.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The emotion inspired by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence.</def>

<blockquote>There is an <b>awe</b> in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. <i>Keble.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in <b>awe</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with <b>awe</b> -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power. <i>C. J. Smith.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To stand in awe of</col>, <cd>to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly.</cd></cs>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Reverence</er>.</syn>