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One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.

ith fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. Shak. His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. Macaulay.

A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

One who wields an ax.

An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, "To call for the ayes and noes;" "The ayes have it."

A grandfather. [Obs.] Writ of Ayle, an ancient English writ which lay against a stranger who had dispossessed the demandant of land of which his grandfather died seized.

One who administered the Eucharist with unleavened bread; -- a name of reproach given by those of the Greek church to the Latins.

The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied. Judges x. 6.

n Persia, which was founded, about 1844, by Mirza Ali Mohammed ibn Rabhik (1820 -- 1850), who assumed the title of Bab-ed-Din (Per., Gate of the Faith). Babism is a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees women from many of the degradations…

A Hindoo gentleman; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

One who keeps a baby farm.

ive place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. Baccare! you are marvelous forward. Shak.

A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser. "Tipsy bacchanals." Shak.

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

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.

One who backslides.

The act of one who backslides; abandonment of faith or duty. Our backslidings are many. Jer. xiv. 7.