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Expressive of awe or terror. An awesome glance up at the auld castle. Sir W. Scott.

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

In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

To confound; to terrify; to amaze. [Obs.] Spenser.

coördinates in a plane, to straight lines intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. -- Axes of coördinates in space, the three straight lines in which the coördinate planes intersect each other. -- Axis of a ba…

Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle. Azimuthal error of a transit instrument, its deviation in azimuth from the plane of the meridian.

A broad, flatbottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

The degree of bachelor of arts. (B.A. or A.B.), the first or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and colleges.

Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray.

Having many berries.

Producing berries. " Bacciferous trees." Ray.

Having the form of a berry.

Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.

A man of any age who has not been married. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

A ferryboat. See Bac, 1

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

f traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

tween motives which appear of equal force; to waver; to hesitate. He would not balance or err in the determination of his choice. Locke.

Of or pertaining to the isles of Majorca, Minorca, Ivica, etc., in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Valencia. Balearic crane. (Zoöl.) See Crane.

cate to fishermen, by shouts or signals from shore, the direction taken by the shoals of herring.