awn

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A thin film it leaves behind makes the awn an even better spot for condensation, making water collection yet more efficient.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2016

He at one point invoked the excesses of “King Jahge,” a tyrant who “made judges dependent awn his will alone.”

From Slate • Jan. 5, 2015

Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah

I cannot see it fer me life,    What it’s to do wi thee; Go mind thi awn affairs, oud Nick,    An nivver thee heed me.”

From Random Rhymes and Rambles by Wright, William Aldis

A. præ̀cox, L. Culms tufted, 3–4´ high; branches of the small and dense panicle appressed; awn from below the middle of the glume.—Sandy fields, N. J. to Va.; rare.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa