Avoset, n. Scooper.

Avouch, v. a. Affirm, assert, asseverate, declare, protest, allege, say, maintain.

Avow, v. a. Acknowledge, confess, own, profess, declare, affirm.

Avowal, n. Acknowledgment, confession, declaration, profession, manifesto.

Await, v. a. 1. Expect, abide, wait for, stay for, look for, be in readiness for.

2. Attend, be in store for, be prepared for, be ready for.

Awake, a. 1. Not asleep.

2. Attentive, watchful, vigilant, alive, on the alert.

Awake, v. a. &n. Awaken.

Awaken, v. a. 1. Awake, wake, rouse from sleep.

2. Arouse, excite, kindle, spur, incite, stimulate, provoke, stir up.

Awaken, v. n. Wake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.

Awakening, n. Revival.

Award, v. a. Adjudge, decrees.

Award, n. Judgment, decree, adjudication, determination, decision.

Aware, a. Mindful, conscious, cognizant, observant, apprised, sensible, convinced, persuaded.

Away, ad. 1. Absent, gone, off, from home, at a distance, not present.

2. Begone, let us go.

Away with, Take away.

Awe, n. 1. Reverence, veneration, reverential fear.

2. Dread, fearfulness.

Awe, v. a. Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow, inspire with awe.

Awe-struck, a. Dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, horror-struck.

Awful, a. 1. Venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing, solemn, majestic.

2. Dread, dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, terrible, dire, direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous.

3. [Vulgar.] Ugly, homely, unsightly, ill-looking.

Awhile, ad. For a time, for some time, some time, for a while.

Awkward, a. 1. Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, without dexterity.

2. Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.

3. Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.

Awned, a. (Bot.) Aristate, bearded.

Awning, n. Canopy, tilt.

Awry, ad. 1. Obliquely, asquint, askance.

2. Perversely, wrong.

Awry, a. Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.

Axilla, n. [L. pl. Axillæ.] (Anat.) Armpit.

Axiom, n. 1. Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.

2. Postulate, established principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.

Axiomatic, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.

Axiomatical, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.

Axis, n. Shaft, spindle, arbor.

Ay, ad. Yes.

Aye, ad. Yes.

Aye, ad. [Poetical.] Always, for ever.

Azote, n. Nitrogen.

Azure, a. Blue, cerulean, sky-colored, sky-blue.

Azure, n. Blue, sky-color.

B

Babble, v.n. 1. Prattle, jabber, chatter, talk inarticulately.

2. Prate, chat, gossip, palaver, tattle, be loquacious, talk idly or thoughtlessly.

Babble, v. a. Tell (foolishly), prate, utter, prate about.

Babble, n. Prattle, palaver, chit-chat, gabble, twaddle, chatter, balderdash, platitude, flummery, wish-wash, stuff, moonshine, fudge, trash, nonsense, small talk, idle talk, childish or foolish talk, frothy discourse.

Babbling, n. 1. Prattle, babble.

2. Garrulity, loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness.

Babe, n. Infant, baby, nursling, suckling, chit, brat, bantling, bairn, little one.

Babel, n. Confusion, disorder, tumult, pother, hurly-burly.

Baby, n. Infant, babe.

Babyhood, n. Infancy.

Baccalaureate, n. Degree of bachelor of arts.

Baccate, a. (Bot.) Of a pulpy nature (like a berry).

Bacchanal, n. Reveller, carouser, bacchanalian.

Bacchanal, a. Riotous, revelling, noisy, bacchanalian.

Bacchanalian, n. and a. Bacchanal.