Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages). Noah Webster

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

       2. (Naut.) That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulkhead of the cabin.

       Awn¶inged (?), a. Furnished with an awning.

       Awn¶less, a. Without awns or beard.

       Awn¶y (?), a. Having awns; bearded.

       AÏwork¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + work.] At work; in action. ½Set awork.¸

       Shak.

       AÏwork¶ing, adv. [Pref. aÏ + working.] At work; in action. [Archaic or Colloq.]

       Spenser.

       AÏwreak¶, AÏwreke¶,} (?), v. t. & i. To avenge. [Obs.] See Wreak.

       AÏwrong¶ (?), adv. [Pref. aÏ + wrong.] Wrongly.

       Ford.

       AÏwry¶ (?), adv. & a. [Pref. aÏ + wry.] 1. Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. ½Your crown's awry.¸

       Shak.

       Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry.

       Into the devious air.

       Milton.

       2. Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.

       Or by her charms

       Draws him awry, enslaved.

       Milton.

       Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men.

       Milton.

       Aw¶some (?), a. Same as Awesome.

       Ax, Axe,} (?), n. [OE. ax, axe, AS. eax, ‘x, acas; akin to D. akse, OS. accus, OHG. acchus, G. axt, Icel. ”x, ”xi, Sw. yxe, Dan. ”kse, Goth. aqizi, Gr. ?, L. ascia; not akin to E. acute.] A tool or instrument of steel, or of iron with a steel edge or blade, for felling trees, chopping and splitting wood, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

       The ancient battleÐax had sometimes a double edge.

       µ The word is used adjectively or in combination; as, axhead or ax head; ax helve; ax handle; ax shaft; axÐshaped; axlike.

       This word was originally spelt with e, axe; and so also was nearly every corresponding word of one syllable: as, flaxe, taxe, waxe, sixe, mixe, pixe, oxe, fluxe, etc. This superfluous e is not dropped; so that, in more than a hundred words ending in x, no one thinks of retaining the e except in axe. Analogy requires its exclusion here.

       ½The spelling ax is better on every ground, of etymology, phonology, and analogy, than axe, which has of late become prevalent.¸

       New English Dict. (Murray).

       Ax (?), v. t. & i. [OE. axien and asken. See Ask.] To ask; to inquire or inquire of.

       µ This word is from Saxon, and is as old as the English language. Formerly it was in good use, but now is regarded as a vulgarism. It is still dialectic in England, and is sometimes heard among the uneducated in the United States. ½And Pilat axide him, Art thou kyng of Jewis?¸ ½Or if he axea fish.¸

       Wyclif.

       ½The king axed after your Grace's welfare.¸

       Pegge.

       Ax¶al (?), a. [See Axial.] [R.]

       Axe (?), Axe¶man (?), etc. See Ax, Axman.

       Ax¶iÏal (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to an axis; of the nature of, or resembling, an axis; around an axis.

       To take on an axial, and not an equatorial, direction.

       Nichol.

       2. (Anat.) Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones.

       Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other.

       Faraday.

       Ax¶iÏalÏly (?), adv. In relation to, or in a line with, an axis; in the axial (magnetic) line.

       Ax¶il (?), n. [L. axilla. Cf. Axle.] (Bot.) The angle or point of divergence between the upper side of a branch, leaf, or petiole, and the stem or branch from which it springs.

       Gray.

       Ax¶ile (?), a. Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed.

       Gray.

       Ø AxÏil¶la (?), n.; pl. Axillae (?). [L.] (Anat.) The armpit, or the cavity beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder.

       2. (Bot.) An axil.

       Ax¶ilÏlar (?), a. Axillary.

       Ax¶ilÏlaÏries (?), Ax¶ilÏlars (?),} n. pl. (Zo”l.) Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

       Ax¶ilÏlaÏry (?), a. [See Axil.] 1. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland, artery, nerve.

       2. (Bot.) Situated in, or rising from, an axil; of or pertaining to an axil. ½Axillary buds.¸

       Gray.

       Ax¶iÏnite (?), n. [Named in allusion to the form of the crystals, fr. Gr. ? an ax.] (Min.) A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

       AxÏin¶oÏman·cy (?), n. [L. axinomantia, Gr. ? ax + Ïmancy.] A species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet.

       Ax¶iÏom (?), n. [L. axioma, Gr. ? that which is thought worthy, that which is assumed, a basis of demonstration, a principle, fr. ? to think worthy, fr. ? worthy, weighing as much as; cf. ? to lead, drive, also to weigh so much: cf F. axiome. See Agent, a.] 1. (Logic & Math.) A selfÐevident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as,½The whole is greater than a part;¸ ½A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be.¸

       2. An established principle in some art or science, which, though not a necessary truth, is universally received; as, the axioms of political economy.

       Syn. Ð Axiom, Maxim, Aphorism, Adage. An axiom is a selfÐevident truth which is taken for granted as the basis of reasoning. A maxim is a guiding principle sanctioned by experience, and relating especially to the practical concerns of life. An aphorism is a short sentence pithily expressing some valuable and general truth or sentiment. An adage is a saying of longÐestablished authority and of universal application.

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