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See Ache.

Same as Achene.

See Acton.

A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer.

To overtake. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To rouse from sleep.; to wake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25.

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

One who, or that which, awakens.

rom sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.

An awakening. [R.]

ing in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples.

A house for baking; a bakery.

A pie; baked food. [Obs.] Gen. xl. 17. Shak.

p. p. of Bake. [Obs. or. Archaic]

One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc.

Having legs that bend inward at the knees.

The trade of a baker. [R.]

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who run from a goal.