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From a place; hence. The sound is going away. Shak. Have me away, for I am sore wounded. 2 Chron. xxxv. 23.

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

Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.] Thrust from the company of awful men. Shak.

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

Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. Milton.

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.

f divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs. Gray.

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

primary of secondary central line of any design. Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. -- Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. -- Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, ce…

An axis; as, the sun's axle. Had from her axle torn The steadfast earth. Milton.

nster carpet, an imitation Turkey carpet, noted for its thick and soft pile; -- so called from Axminster, Eng.

lored as to produce a pattern on a stout jute backing. It has a fine soft pile. So called from Axminster, England, where it was formerly (1755 -- 1835) made.

One of a superior breed of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

y natives of China or of North America; false honeysuckle. The genus is scarcely distinct from Rhododendron.

in a horizontal circle. Azimuthal error of a transit instrument, its deviation in azimuth from the plane of the meridian.

A substance (C6H5.N2.C6H5) derived from nitrobenzene, forming orange red crystals which are easily fusible.

to distinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfuran, thiophene, and pyrrol by replacement of the CH group by nitrogen; as, furo-monazole. Names exactly analogous to those for the azines are also used; as, oxazole, diazole, etc.

i. e., mercury, which was formerly supposed to exist in all metals, and to be extractable from them.

The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus cæruleus); -- so called from its color.

en, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.