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by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton.

Behind a ship; in the rear. "A gale of wind right astern." De Foe. "Left this strait astern." Drake. To bake astern, to go stern foremost. -- To be astern of the reckoning, to be behind the position given by the reckoning. -- To drop astern, to fall or be left behind. -- To go astern, to go backward, as from the act…

The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

A temple of Athene, at Athens, in which scholars and poets were accustomed to read their works and instruct students.

A variety of chorea, marked by peculiar tremors of the fingers and toes.

Reputation. [Poetic] Shak.

In twain; asunder. [Obs. or Poetic] "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.

The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.

us can the demigod, Authority, Make us pay down for our offense. Shak. By what authority doest thou these things Matt. xxi. 23.

ing stylus on the principle of the relay. It produces much clearer and louder tones than does the ordinary vibrating disk reproducer.

n for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had ne…

A post of security or defense. [Poetic] Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him. Beau. & Fl.

ers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

phers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

eligion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly. If this which he avouches does appear. Shak. Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. Spenser.

Wearied. [Poetic]

Weary. [Poetic] "I begin to be aweary of thee." Shak.

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

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.