"Awn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this is, Thor's nowt mair se than man; He laffs at wummin's toil, And winnet nurse his awn;— It's startin' te cry agyen, Aw see tuts throo its gum, Maw little bit pet, dinnet fret,— Aw wish yor ...
— Northumberland Yesterday and To-day • Jean F. Terry
... "Awn ge' DOWN," said Paul, distinctly, every fibre of his small being headed, as it were, for the pebbly shingle where it was ...
— The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne • Kathleen Norris
... tusk; spoke, cog, ratchet. crag, crest, arete[Fr], cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille[obs3]; spire, pyramid, steeple. beard, chevaux de frise[Fr], porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle; comb; awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed[obs3], cleavers, clivers[obs3], goose, grass, hairif[obs3], hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel[obs3], heckle. wedge; knife edge, cutting edge; blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
... to that melodious play, A' deidly awn the quiet sway - A' ken their solemn holiday, Bestial an' human, The singin' lintie on the ...
— Underwoods • Robert Louis Stevenson
... slender axis are developed two florets, more or less imperfect in their structure. Only one of the florets that I have seen contained a perfect ovary. The tips of the lateral lobes of the paleae in the primary flower are sometimes extended into a long awn. A similar awn may also be occasionally found on the tips of the paleae of the rudimentary florets. The occurrence of an adventitious axial structure with rudimentary flowers has been adduced in support of the opinion that the lower paleae is, at least so far as its midrib is concerned, an ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... fear it was much inferior to many others. One species of Barley-grass, which grows very commonly in our sea-marshes, the Hordeum maritimum, is apt to render cattle diseased in the mouth, from chewing the seeds, which are armed with a strong bristly awn not dissimilar to the spike ...
— The Botanist's Companion, Vol. II • William Salisbury |
