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A deity corresponding to Odin, the supreme deity of the Scandinavians. Wednesday is named for him. See Odin.

Made or consisting of wood; pertaining to, or resembling, wood; as, a wooden box; a wooden leg; a wooden wedding.

Clumsily; stupidly; blockishly. R. North.

Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness. We set our faces against the woodenness which then characterized German philology. Sweet.

Yielded.

The branched, and often treelike, support of the colonies of certain Infusoria.

from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-…

On tiptoe; eagerly expecting. We all feel a-tiptoe with hope and confidence. F. Harrison.

An edentate mammal, of the genus Orycteropus, somewhat resembling a pig, common in some parts of Southern Africa. It burrows in the ground, and feeds entirely on ants, which it catches with its long, slimy tongue.

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.

state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment. The abandonment of the independence of Europe. Burke.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable.

uphold, or aid; to maintain; -- in a good sense. [Obs.]. Our duty is urged, and our confidence abetted. Jer. Taylor.

One who dwells; a resident. Speed.

One who believes that life can be produced independently of antecedent. Huxley.

Exceptional. [R.] It is this power which leads on from the accidental and abjunctive to the universal. I. Taylor.

In a state of glowing excitement or ardent desire. The young Cambridge democrats were all ablaze to assist Torrijos. Carlyle.

To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar.