Search the Dictionary

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

Furnished with an awn, or long bristle-shaped tip; bearded. Gray.

A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

Furnished with an awning.

Without awns or beard.

Having awns; bearded.

Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.

An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. [Obs.] Spenser.

A muscle; flesh. [Obs.] Formed well of brawns and of bones. Chaucer.

Brawny; strong; muscular. [Obs.] Spenser.

A boor killed for the table.

The quality or state of being brawny.

Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving.

Sucked by cubs. [R.] This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch. Shak.

Same as Cyprus. Milton.

n to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1.

See Draw, v. t. & i. Drawn butter, butter melter and prepared to be used as a sort of gravy. -- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl. -- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; one equally contested. -- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak. -- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from…

A net for catching the larger sorts of birds; also, a dragnet. Crabb.

To harden. [Obs.] It will embrawn and iron-crust his flesh. Nash.

To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn. To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.