Away: Definition and part of speech

Away

  1. adv. On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away.
  2. adv. From a place; hence.
  3. adv. Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
  4. adv. Aside; off; in another direction.
  5. adv. From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
  6. adv. By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Awake: Definition and part of speech

Awake

  1. a. Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
  2. v. t. To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
  3. v. t. To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
  4. v. i. To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Avowry: Definition and part of speech

Avowry

  1. n. The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.
  2. n. An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Awakening: Definition and part of speech

Awakening

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Awaken
  2. a. Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.