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
Hur majestik black eye does tru buty display, Resemblin truly the goddess of day; Her dark-flowing ringlets, yah’d think as they shone, That Venus ’ud fashun’d ’em after hur awn.
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
Glumes pointless or the flowering ones tipped with a straight awn or bristle.
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
