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Same as Achene.

One who, or that which, awakens.

The snakebird, 1.

A net for catching crabs. Halliwell.

One who wakens.

One who, or that which, weakens. "[Fastings] weakeners of sin." South.

seed, as in the buttercup; -- called a naked seed by the earlier botanists. [Written also akene and achænium.]

dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

To become weakened in constitution or faculties; to lose health or strength. See how the dean begins to break; Poor gentleman . Swift.

Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten.

doctrine originally taught by the Hindoo sage Gautama Siddartha, surnamed Buddha, "the awakened or enlightened," in the sixth century b.c., and adopted as a religion by the greater part of the inhabitants of Central and Eastern Asia and the Indian Islands. Buddha's teaching is believed to have been atheistic; yet it w…

imitive Christian rites and ceremonies. But centuries of subjection to Moslem rule have weakened and degraded it.

The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.

Broken, weakened, or dissordered in intellect; shattered; demented; deranged. Over moist and crazy brains. Hudibras.

n of water; to temper; to attenuate; to weaken. Lest these colors should be diluted and weakened by the mixture of any adventitious light. Sir I. Newton.

Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation. His encomiums awakened all my ardor. W. Irving.

Weakened; weak; without strength of force. Pope.

The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.

Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest.

The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton.