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The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

Goutweed.

To stupefy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Between. [Archaic] Spenser. Tennyson.

Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- A*vow"ed*ly (, adv.

The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

One who avows or asserts.

cent] His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper.

Awe-struck.

Struck with awe. Milton.

Wearied. [Poetic]

Weary. [Poetic] "I begin to be aweary of thee." Shak.

On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather ! Totten.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

See Awless.

Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight. Wright.

The quality of being awesome.

An ornament resembling a ball placed in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.

One who, or that which, bedews.

One who swerves from and is unfaithful to the marriage vow. [Poetic] Shak.