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A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house. Lincolnshire may be termed the aviary of England. Fuller.

The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. "The avoidance of pain." Beattie.

Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. Before whom awake I stood. Milton. She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. Keats. He was awake to the danger. Froude.

ool 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 heavie…

The business of keeping a baby farm.

by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.

Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

A method of tripping by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back; a throw made in this way. -- v. t.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.

Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

Custody; keeping. [Obs.] Silly Faunus now within their bail. Spenser.

etween sovereign states or between dominant parties in a state. -- Balance sheet (Bookkeeping), a paper showing the balances of the open accounts of a business, the debit and credit balances footing up equally, if the system of accounts be complete and the balances correctly taken. -- Balance thermometer, a thermomet…

d left unplowed between furrows, or at the end of a field; a piece missed by the plow slipping aside. Bad plowmen made balks of such ground. Fuller.

nk a fire, To bank up a fire, to cover the coals or embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low but alive.

A drilling or tamping rod.

in which hides are steeped in tanning. -- Bark stove (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.

The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.

un, a gun capable of firing a number, of shots simultaneously or successively without stopping to load. -- Battery wagon, a wagon employed to transport the tools and materials for repair of the carriages, etc., of the battery. -- In battery, projecting, as a gun, into an embrasure or over a parapet in readiness for f…

An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. [Obs.] Spenser.