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A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator.

r. By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury.

To pluck or pull off. Shenstone.

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation. The avulsion of two polished superficies. Locke.

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.

Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.

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

Furnished with an awning.

An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

Azure. [Obs.] Thick set with agate, and the azurn sheen Of turkis blue, and emerald green. Milton.

To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep. He treble baas for help, but none can get. Sir P. Sidney.

The bleating of a sheep. Marryat.

s in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

Firmness; moral principle; steadfastness. Shelley's thought never had any backbone. Shairp. To the backbone, through and through; thoroughly; entirely. "Staunch to the backbone." Lord Lytton.

was a background of grinding and waiting before Miss Torry could produce this highly finished . . . performance. Mrs. Alexander. A husband somewhere in the background. Thackeray.

, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes. S. G. Goodrich.

ements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States. Fisher Ames.

ke to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.