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Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action. Before whom awake I stood. Milton. She still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep. Keats. He was awake to the danger. Froude.

A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

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

e city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.

A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.

In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".

Ground in the rear or behind, or in the distance, as opposed to the foreground, or the ground in front.

The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover.

taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.

With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward.

The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.

A men living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

an allied genus. It is a burrowing animal, with short, thick legs, and long claws on the fore feet. One species (M. vulgaris), called also brock, inhabits the north of Europe and Asia; another species (Taxidea Americana or Labradorica) inhabits the northern parts of North America. See Teledu.

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

A certain limit within a forest. [Eng.]

iling a person accused. Bailment . . . is the saving or delivery of a man out of prison before he hath satisfied the law. Dalton.

A row of bright spots observed in connection with total eclipses of the sun. Just before and after a total eclipse, the slender, unobscured crescent of the sun's disk appears momentarily like a row of bright spots resembling a string of beads. The phenomenon (first fully described by Francis Baily, 1774 -- 1844) is tho…

The last reef in a fore-and-aft sail, taken to steady the ship.

To cut squarely across, as the tail of a hors, or the forelock of human beings; to cut (the hair). His hair banged even with his eyebrows. The Century Mag.

One who administers baptism; -- specifically applied to John, the forerunner of Christ. Milton.