awnar

[OWNER.] (O. Scotch.) Trench derives it from A.S. aweg = away, out. [AWAY.] Mahn considers it an abbreviation of Eng. gawk ; Fr. gauche = left, awkward, clumsy. Stratmann deems it = avek , and connects it with O. Icel. öfugr, O. H. Ger. abuher averse, perverse, sinister; and Wedgwood derives it from O. Icel. af (Lat. ab ) = Eng. off, of, with kas an adjectival termination.] A. As adjective : I. Lit. ( Used chiefly of things material): 1. On the left hand. "That which we in Greek call άριστερόν , that is to say, on the auke or left hand, they say in Latin sinistrum."-P. Holland: Plutarch , p. 717. 2. Awry; turned round. (Used of a staff or anything similar.) ( Golding .) (Trench: Select Glo .) II. Fig (Used chiefly of things immaterial): 1. Wrong. " Awke or wrong: sinister."- Prompt . Parv.3 2. Perverse in temper, for the moment at least; angry. " Awke , or angry. Contrarius, biliosus , per versus." Prompt . Parv. B. As adv.: Odd; out of order; perverse; untoward. "We have heard as arrant jangling in the pulpits as the steeples;; and profe ors ringing as as awk as the bells to give notice of the conflagration." conflagration."- L'Estrange .