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Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

Pertaining a short beard or awn. Gray.

lar and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array. Wedged together in the closest array. Gibbon.

astounded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

creed, a formulary, confession, or exposition of faith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a summary of what was called the orthodox faith.

f English literature. -- Augustan confession (Eccl. Hist.), or confession of Augsburg, drawn up at Augusta Vindelicorum, or Augsburg, by Luther and Melanchthon, in 1530, contains the principles of the Protestants, and their reasons for separating from the Roman Catholic church.

The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.

Belonging to, or resembling, the aurora (the dawn or the northern lights); rosy. Her cheeks suffused with an auroral blush. Longfellow.

A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.

in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria. Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! Byron.

The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black.

g into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor. Totten.

les shall be equal to each other. -- Spiral axis (Arch.), the axis of a twisted column drawn spirally in order to trace the circumvolutions without. -- Axis of abscissas and Axis of ordinates. See Abscissa.

A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

A half hoop for supporting the cover of a carrier's wagon, awning of a boat, etc.

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

globular form, containing sparkling particles. -- Three balls, or Three golden balls, a pawnbroker's sign or shop.

A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.

Wearing, or protected by, bases. [Obs.] "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall.