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Await, in this fenfe, fignifies what we now call way¬ 
laying, or lying in wait, to execute fame mifchief. By hat. 
it, Rich. II. it is ordained, that no charter of pardon (hall 
he allowed before any juftice for the death of a man llain 
by await, or malice prepenfed, &c. 
To AWA'KE, v. a. [ wtccian, Sax. To awake has the pre¬ 
terite awoke, or, as we now more commonly fpeak, awa¬ 
ked.] To roufe out of ileep.—Our friend Lazarus fieep- 
eth ; but I go that I may awake him out of deep. John, 
xi. j i.—To raife from any hate refembling deep. To put 
into new aftion : 
The fair 
Repairs her fmiles, awakens ev’ry grace, 
And calls forth all the wonders of her Lice. Pope. 
To Awake, v.n. To break from deep; to ceafe to deep. 
—I awaked up lad of all, as one that gathereth after the 
grape-gatherers. Ecclus, xxxiii. 16. 
Awake, adj. Not being adeep ; not deeping.-—Imagi¬ 
nation is like to work better upon lleeping men, than men 
awake. Bacon. 
To AWA'KEN, v. a. and v. n. Same with Awake : 
Awake Argantyr, Hervor the only daughter 
Of thee and Suafu doth awaken thee.- Hifk.es'. 
To AWARD', v. a. [derived by Skinner, fomewhat im¬ 
probably, from weard, Sax. towards.] To adjudge.—It 
advances that grand bufinefs, according to which their 
eternity hereafter will be awarded. Decay of Piety. 
To Award, v. n. To judge ; to determine : 
Tli’ unwife award to lodge it in the tow’rs, 
An off’ring facred. Pope's OdyJJcy. 
Award,/ Judgment; fentence ; determination.—Af¬ 
fection bribes the judgment,-and we cannot expect art equi¬ 
table award , where the judge is made a party. Glanvilh. 
To urge the foe, 
Prompted by blind revenge and wild defpair, 
Were to relufe th’ awards of Providence. Addifon. 
Award, in law, the judgment of an arbitrator, or of 
one who is not appointed by the law a judge, but chofen 
"by the parties themfelves for terminating their difference. 
See Arbitration. 
AW A'RE, adv. [from a and ware , an old word for cau¬ 
tious ; it is, however, perhaps an adje£tiv<*; gewarian. Sax. ] 
Excited to caution ; vigilant; in a hate of alarm ; atten¬ 
tive._Temptations of profperity infmuate themfelves ; fo 
that we are but little aware of them, and lefsableto with- 
.ftand them. Atterbury. 
To Aware, v. n. To beware ; to be cautious: 
,-'So-warned he them aware themfelves; and 
Inftant, without difturb, they took alarm. Milton. 
This paffage is by others underftood thus: He warned 
.thofe, who were aware, of themfelves. 
AWATS'KA-BAY, a large harbour, on the eaftern 
coaft of Kamtfchatka. Lat. 52. 50. N. Ion. 158. 48. E. 
Greenwich. 
AWAY', adv. [ aweg , Sax.] In a Hate of abfence ; not 
in any particular place : 
They could make 
Love to your drefs, altho’ your face were away. Ben Jonfon. 
From any place or perfon.—When the fowls came down 
upon the carcafes, Abraham drove them away again. Gen. 
j 1 .—Summer funs roll unperceiv’d away. Pope .—Let 
11s go : 
Away, old man; give nle thy hand; away, 
King Lear hath loft, he and his daughter ta’en; 
Give me thy hand. Come on. Skakefpeare. 
Be gone: 
I’ll to the woods among the happier brutes. 
Come, let’s away ; hark, the fhrill horn refounds. Smith. 
Out of one’s own hands; into the power of fomethingelfe. 
—-it concerns every man, who will not trifle away his foul. 
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arid fool himfelf into irrecoverable mifery, to enquire inter 
thefe matters. Tillotfon. —It is often ufed with a verb ; as, 
to drink away an eftate ; to idle away a manor ; that is, to 
drink or idle till an eftate or manor is gone : 
He play'd his life away. Pope. 
On the way ; on the road. Perhaps this is the original im¬ 
port of the following phrafe : 
Sir Valentine, whither away fo fall ? Skakefpeare. 
Perhaps the phrafe, He cannot away’ with, may mean, He 
cannot travel with ; He cannot bear the company. —She ne- 
vercould away with me.--Never, never: lire would always 
fay, fhe could not abide matter Shallow. Skakefpeare.— 
Away with. Throw away ; take away : 
If you dare think of deferving our charms, 
Away with your fheephooks, and take to your arms. Dryd. 
sc Whe'n the cat is away, the mice play.” Qit'and il n'y a 
point de ckatyles ratsfe promenent a leur aife, hr. The La¬ 
tins fay : Oculus dominifaginat equum. The Germans, Des 
herrn auge vtaflet das pferd: ‘ The mafter’s eye makes the 
horfe fat.’ The Spanifh, Vanfe los gdtos, efeind enfe los ra- 
tos. Thefe proverbs are applied to fervanfs, who, in their 
mailers abfence, are but too apt to fpend their time in play¬ 
ing, junketting, and revelling. 
AW'CHAR, a town of Perfia, in the province of Adir- 
beitzan, fifty leagues fouth-wefit of Tauris. 
AWE,/ \_ege, oga. Sax.] Reverential fear; reverence. 
—-This is the proper awe and fear, which is due from man 
to God. Rogers. 
To Awe, ~v. a, To ftrike with reverence, or fear; to 
keep in fubjeflion.—If you will work on arty man, you 
mult either know his nature and fafhions, and fo lead him ; 
or bis ends, and fo perfuade him ; or his weakneffes and 
difad vantages, and fo awe him; or thofe that have inte- 
reft in him, and fo govern him. Bacon .— The'rods and 
axes of princes, and their deputies, may awe many into 
obedience; but the fame of their goodnefs, juftice, and 
other virtues, will work on more. Atterbury. 
AW'EB AND,/ [from awe and band. ] A check'. 
AW'ERI, Overa, or Oese, a kingdom of Africa, de¬ 
pendant on Benin, with a town of the fame name, on the 
river Formofa. 
AW'FUL, adj. [from awe and full.] That which ftrikes 
with awe, or fills with reverence: 
I approach thee thus, and gaze 
Infatiate ; I thus Angle; nor have fear’d 
Thy awful brow, more awful thus retir’d, 
Fairell refemblance of thy Maker fair! Milton . 
Worftiipfnl; in authority; inverted with dignity. This 
fenfe is obfolete 
Know, then, that fome of us are gentlemen. 
Such as the fury of ungovern’d youth 
Thruft from the company of awful men. Skakefpeare. 
Struck with awe; timorous; fcrupulotvs. This fenfe occurs 
but rarely .— It is not nature and Uriel reafon, but a weak 
and awful reverence for antiquity, ana the vogue of falli¬ 
ble men. Watts. 
AW'FULLY, adv. In a reverential manner.—It will 
concern a man, to treat this great principle awfully and 
warily, by (till obferving what it commands, but efpecial. 
ly what it forbids. South. 
AW'FULNESS,/ The quality of ftriking with awe; 
folemnity.—Thefe objects naturally raife ferioufnefs; and 
night heightens the awfulnefs of the place, and pours out 
her fupernumerary horrors upon every thing. Addifon. — 
The ftate of being (truck with awe: little ufed .•—An help 
to prayer, producing in us reverence and awfulnefs to the 
divine majefty of God. Taylor. 
To AWH A'PE, v. n. [from wapen, Tent, to ftrike. ] To 
ftrike ; to confound ; to terrify : 
Ah! my dear gofiip, anfwer’d then the ape. 
Deeply do your fad words my wits awhape , 
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