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
Aw, awm convinced by thee alone, This grate important truth ta awn, On thee aw furst saw life, ’tis knawn, E mortal birth; Till a few fleetin haars flown, Then back ta earth.
From Random Rhymes and Rambles by William Aldis Wright
Perennial, soft-downy and pale; panicle oblong; upper empty glume mucronate-awned under the apex; awn of the staminate flower curved.—Moist meadows.
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 Asa Gray
Oh, sir, somebody ought to be with him; he has fever at night, and when it comes awn, he's out of his head.
From Horace Chase by Constance Fenimore Woolson
