Away

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AWA'Y, adv. See Way.

1. Absent; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

Have me away, for I am wounded. 2Chron. 35.

2. It is much used with words signifying moving or going from; as, go away, send away, run away, &c.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast.

Love hath wings and will away.

3. As an exclamation, it is a command or invitation to depart; away, that is, be gone, or let us go. "Away with him." Take him away.

4. With verbs, it serves to modify their sense and form peculiar phrases; as,

To throw away, to cast from, to give up, dissipate or foolishly destroy.

To trifle away, to lose or expend in trifles, or in idleness.

To drink away, to squander away, &c., to dissipate in drinking or extravagance.

To make away, is to kill or destroy.

5. Away with has a peculiar signification in the phrase, "I cannot away with it." Isa. 1. The sense is, "I cannot bear or endure it."

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.

See Also

• Scriptures Containing Away