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Capable of being averted; preventable.

awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.

ed by something dreadful and sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence. There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the…

Inspiring awe; filling with profound reverence, or with fear and admiration; fitted to inspire reverential fear; profoundly impressive. Heaven's awful Monarch. Milton.

In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place. The awfulness of grandeur. Johnson.

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. "Awless insolence." Dryden.

ntinually; for an indefinite time. For his mercies aye endure. Milton. For aye, always; forever; eternally.

Pertaining to the Babylon of Revelation xiv.8.

Engaged in drunken revels; drunken and riotous or noisy.

Hence: A drunken feast; drunken reveler.

Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness. Even bacchanalian madness has its charms. Cowper.

The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

A bacchanal; a reveler. Croly.

in. -- To back the oars, to row backward with the oars. -- To back a rope, to put on a preventer. -- To back the sails, to arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern. -- To back up, to support; to sustain; as, to back up one's friends. -- To back a warrant (Law), is for a justice of the peace, in the coun…

during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.

A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. W. Nicholson.

nything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse. [Scot.]

ing or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.