AWKWARD, awk'ward, _adj._ clumsy: ungraceful: embarrassed: difficult to
deal with: (_Shak._) unfavourable: (_obs._) froward.--_adj._
AWK'WARDISH.--_adv._ AWK'WARDLY, clumsily, embarrassingly,
dangerously.--_n._ AWK'WARDNESS. [Prob. Ice. _afug_, turned wrong way, and
suff. _-ward_, expressing direction.]
AWL, awl, _n._ a pointed instrument for boring small holes in leather.
[A.S. _æl_; cog. with Ice. _alr_, Ger. _ahle_.]
AWN, awn, _n._ a scale or husk: beard of corn or grass.--_adjs._ AWNED;
AWN'LESS; AWN'Y. [Ice. _ögn_; Ger. _ahne_.]
AWNING, awn'ing, _n._ a covering to shelter from the sun's rays. [Perh. due
to the Fr. _auvent_, a screen of cloth before a shop window, with Eng.
ending _-ing_. Skeat suggests Pers. _áwan_, _áwang_, anything suspended.
The history of the word is still unsolved.]
AWOKE, a-w[=o]k', did awake--_pa.t._ of AWAKE.