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Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.

Missing; wanting. [Prov. Scot. & Eng.] Sir W. Hamilton.

On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing away. [Colloq.]

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

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene. "The hour of Nature's awful throes." Hemans.

Not easily managed or effected; embarrassing. A long and awkward process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. "Axillary buds." Gray.

A straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, on which it revolves, or may be supposed to revolve; a line passing through a body or system around which the parts are symmetrically arranged.

and in which it may move vertically; -- also called a jaw in the United States, and a housing in England.

A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

Yes; yea; -- a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is much used in viva voce voting in legislative bodies, etc.

arc of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

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

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

Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing. Byron.

State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.

handle, used in rustic amusements; also, the game in which the stick is used. Also called singlestick. Halliwell.

Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

ed by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).