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. Axillae.] (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.

Bacchanals, n. pl. Revelry, revels, orgies, carousal, debauch, drunken frolic, potation, compotation, wassail, Saturnalia, drunken feasts.

Back, n. 1. Upper part, outer part.

2. Hinder part.

Back, a. 1. Remote.

2. Hindmost, in the rear.

3. In a backward direction.

Back, ad. 1. To the place of starting.

2. Backward, rearward, abaft, in the rear, towards what is behind.

3. In return, in recompense.

Back, v. a. 1. Assist, aid, second, support, countenance, favor, sustain, abet, side with, stand by, take part with, give support to, co-operate with, back up.

2. Move backward.

Backbite, v. a. Defame, traduce, malign, slander, revile, calumniate, libel, lampoon, asperse, vilify, blacken, abuse, scandalize, run down, speak ill of.

Backbiter, n. Slanderer, defamer, traducer, calumniator, libeller.

Backbiting, n. Detraction, defamation, aspersion, slander, calumny, contumely, obloquy.

Backbone, n. 1. Spine, spinal column, vertebral column.

2. Firmness, nerve, resolution, courage, pluck, hardihood, manhood.

Backhanded, a. 1. Inclining to the left hand (as writing).

2. Outward and backward.

3. Indirect, unfair.

Back-house, n. Privy, necessary, jakes, water-closet.

Back out, [Colloquial.] Withdraw from a bargain, not keep a promise, not stand to an engagement.

Backslide, v. n. Apostatize, fall off, fall away, break faith.

Backslider, n. Apostate, deserter, renegade.

Backsliding, n. Apostasy.

Back up, Support, sustain, assist, aid, help, back.

Backward, a. 1. Averse, unwilling, reluctant, loath, disinclined, indisposed, wavering, hesitating.

2. Dull, sluggish, slow, stupid, stolid.

3. Late, tardy, behindhand, after the usual time.

Backward, ad. Regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, abaft.

Backwards, ad. Regressively, rearwards, aback, behind, abaft.

Bad, a. 1. Evil, ill, baneful, deleterious, pernicious, mischievous, noxious, hurtful, injurious, detrimental, unwholesome.

2. Wicked, depraved, abandoned, dishonest, unfair, disingenuous, rascally, villanous.

3. Untoward, unlucky, unfortunate, unwelcome.

4. Vile, wretched, sorry, mean, shabby, scurvy, abominable.

5. Poor, inferior.

Bad blood, Rancor, venom, bitterness, acrimony, harshness, sternness, asperity, crabbedness, churlishness, moroseness, sullenness, ill temper.