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Having awns; bearded.

Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

Having an axle; -- used in composition. Merlin's agate-axled car. T. Warton.

Applied loosely to compounds having nitrogen variously combined, as in cyanides, nitrates, etc.

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

6,220.) It is etymologically related to p , v , f , w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan.…

A name given to any one of family (Timalinæ) of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note.

Having many berries.

Having the form of a berry.

Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad- backed; hump- backed.

Having no badge. Bp. Hall.

Having legs of unequal length, as the badger was thought to have. Shak.

A short wooden club having a deeply concave face, seldom used.

A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

Having the right or privilege of being admitted to bail, upon bond with sureties; -- used of persons. "He's bailable, I'm sure." Ford.

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

Having balconies.

Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.