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kers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.

Shaped like an awl.

Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear. "Awless insolence." Dryden.

The quality of being awless.

A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves.

Sprawling.

To cry out with a loud, full sound; to cry with vehemence, as in calling or exultation; to shout; to vociferate.

One who bawls.

To cover with scrawls; to scribble over. Milton.

To daub, soil, or make foul with spawl or spittle. [Obs.] Milton.

A straight awl with chisel edge, used to make holes for brads, etc. Weale.

arrel noisily and outrageously. Let a man that is a man consider that he is a fool that brawleth openly with his wife. Golden Boke.

One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

Quarreling; quarrelsome; noisy. She is an irksome brawling scold. Shak.

In a brawling manner.

Destitute of claws.

n hands and kness; to creep. A worm finds what it searches after only by feeling, as it crawls from one thing to another. Grew.

A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.

One who, or that which, crawls; a creeper; a reptile.

Creepy. [Colloq.]