Awn, n. Bristly appendage (of corn or grass), bristle, beard.
Awned, a. (Bot.) Aristate, bearded, bristled, awny.
Awning, n. Canopy, tilt, baldachino, baldaquin, or baldequin.
Awnless, a. Beardless, unbearded, unbristled, without beard or bristles, destitute of awn.
Awry, ad.
- 1. Obliquely, asquint. See askance.
- 2. Perversely, wrong. See athwart, 2.
Awry, a. Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry. See Askant and Athwart.
Axilla, n. [L. pl. Axillœ.] (Anat.) Armpit, hollow of the arm, axil.
Axiom, n.
- 1. Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.
- 2. Postulate, settled principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.
Axiomatic, Axiomatical, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute, necessary, apodictic, a priori.
Axis, n.
- 1. Shaft, spindle, arbor.
- 2. Central line, line of symmetry, line of rotation, line of revolution.
Ay, Aye, ad. Yes.
Aye, ad. (Poetical.) Always, forever, evermore, continually, ceaselessly, unendingly, changelessly, unchangingly, immutably.
Azote, n. Nitrogen.
Azure, a. Blue, cerulean, sky-colored, sky-blue.
Azure, n.
- 1. Blue, sky-color, cerulean.
- 2. (With The prefixed.) The sky, heaven, welkin, empyrean, arch or expanse of heaven, blue expanse,
expanse, depths of space, the cerulean vault.