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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. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees.…

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

onfusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.

Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.

Destitute of the natural or common covering on the head or top, as of hair, feathers, foliage, trees, etc.; as, a bald head; a bald oak. On the bald top of an eminence. Wordsworth.

(Haliæetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head.

A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

An ornamental covering, as of carpet or leather, for a bench or form.

A fabric made in Manilla from the older leaf sheaths of the abaca (Musa textilis).

nd or fillet; a part of a head-dress. Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather. Sir W. Scott.

A broad leather belt formerly worn by soldiers over the right shoulder and across the breast under the left arm. Originally it was used for supporting the musket and twelve cases for charges, but later only as a cartridge belt.

Destruction; death. [Obs.] The cup of deception spiced and tempered to their bane. Milton.

e, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

rnatural being supposed by the Irish and Scotch peasantry to warn a family of the speedy death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice under the windows of the house.

A supernatural being supposed to warn a family of the approaching death of one of its members, by wailing or singing in a mournful voice.

A variety of small barnyard fowl, with feathered legs, probably brought from Bantam, a district of Java.

One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.

One of the small hooklike processes on the barbules of feathers.