Part 829

<hw>Awn"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having awns; bearded.</def>

<h1>Awork</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw>A*work"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>a-</ets> + <ets>work</ets>.]</ety> <def>At work; in action.</def> "Set <i>awork</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Aworking</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw>A*work"ing</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>a-</ets> + <ets>working</ets>.]</ety> <def>At work; in action.</def> <mark>[Archaic or Colloq.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Awreak, Awreke</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw><hw>A*wreak"</hw>, <hw>A*wreke"</hw>,<hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t. & i.</tt> <def>To avenge. <mark>[Obs.]</mark> See <er>Wreak</er>.</def>

<h1>Awrong</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw>A*wrong"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>a-</ets> + <ets>wrong</ets>.]</ety> <def>Wrongly.</def>

<i>Ford.</i>

<h1>Awry</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw>A*wry"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv. & a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>a-</ets> + <ets>wry</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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>as, to glance <ex>awry</ex></as>.</def> "Your crown's <i>awry</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues <b>awry</b>. Into the devious air. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.</def>

<blockquote>Or by her charms Draws him <b>awry</b>, enslaved. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Nothing more <b>awry</b> from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Awsome</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw>Aw"some</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Awesome</er>.</def>

<h1>Ax, Axe</h1> <Xpage=107>

<hw><hw>Ax</hw>, <hw>Axe</hw>,<hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>ax</ets>, <ets>axe</ets>, AS. <ets>eax</ets>, <ets>\'91x</ets>, <ets>acas</ets>; akin to D. <ets>akse</ets>, OS. <ets>accus</ets>, OHG. <ets>acchus</ets>, G. <ets>axt</ets>, Icel. <ets>\'94x</ets>, <ets>\'94xi</ets>, Sw. <ets>yxe</ets>, Dan. <ets>\'94kse</ets>, Goth. <ets>aqizi</ets>, Gr. <ets><?/</ets>, L. <ets>ascia</ets>; not akin to E. <ets>acute</ets>.]</ety> <def>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 <i>broadax</i>, 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.</def>

<note>The ancient <i>battle-ax</i> had sometimes a double edge.</note>

<note>&hand; The word is used adjectively or in combination; as, <i>ax</i>head or <i>ax</i> head; <i>ax</i> helve; <i>ax</i> handle; <i>ax</i> shaft; <i>ax</i>-shaped; <i>ax</i>like.</note>

<note>This word was originally spelt with <i>e</i>, <i>axe</i>; and so also was nearly every corresponding word of one syllable: as, <i>flaxe</i>, <i>taxe</i>, <i>waxe</i>, <i>sixe</i>, <i>mixe</i>, <i>pixe</i>, <i>oxe</i>, <i>fluxe</i>, etc. This superfluous <i>e</i> is not dropped; so that, in more than a hundred words ending in <i>x</i>, no one thinks of retaining the <i>e</i> except in <i>axe</i>. Analogy requires its exclusion here.</note>

<note>"The spelling <i>ax</i> is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than <i>axe</i>, which has of late become prevalent." <i>New English Dict. (Murray).</i></note>

<h1>Ax</h1> <Xpage=107>