AWATA, a village in the suburbs of Kioto, Japan, famous for its yellow faience. A. pottery was invented in the 17th c., is decorated, and by the Japanese is called (egg ware). It is largely exported to the United States.
AWE, Loaf, a lake in the center of Argyleshire. extending in a direction n.e. and s.w. about 24 m., with au average breadth of from half a m. to 2i miles. It rarely freezes, and its surface is 108 ft. above the sea. The country around consists of mien slate. The scenery is most striking at the n.e. end of the lake, where the water is studded with numerous wooded islets, overshadowed by towering and rugged mountains, promi nent among which rises the dark and rocky ridge of Ben Cruachan. 3669 ft. high and 14 m. in circuit. Of the islands, the most noted is Fraoclitilean, containing the remains of a castle granted to Gilbert M`Naughton in 1267 by Alexander III. On a peninsula, in the n. end of the lake, stands Kilchurn caste (Caesteal Chnoil-chuirn), once a fortress of great strength, built about 1440 by Sir Colin Campbell of Glenorchy, and garrisoned, as late as 1745, by the king's troops. The waters of the lake are carried off at its n.w. end by the river Awe, after a course of 7 m., enters the sea at Bunawe on loch Etive. The magnificent "Pass of Awe," through which the road runs beneath the shoulder of Ben Cruachan, was the scene of a conflict, in 1308, between Robert the Bruce and the 3PDougalls of Lorn, in which that elan was all but exterminated. At the n.e. end of the loch, it receives the waters of the Orchy and Strae, flowing through glens of their own names. Loch A. contains fine fish, especially trout, salnw ferox, and salmon; and the small villages of Claddich and Port Sonachan, on the e. side of the loch, due n. of
Invcraray, are the general resort of anglers.
is a term denoting the position of the helm when jammed close to the weather-side of a ship; it is the reverse of as applied to the position of an anchor, when just loosened from the ground and hanging vertically in the water, is nearly equivalent to AWN (Arista), the flowers of grasses. a solitary pointed bristle, growingeither from a glume or a palea. The flowers of some grasses are entirely (witless; in many, the glumes alone are awned (or aristak), or only one of them; in others, the glumes are awnless, and the palew, or one palea, awned. The awn is often terminal, and appears as a pro longation of the midrib of the glurne or palea; from which, however, it sometimes sep arates below the point, and is' then said to be on the back of it, or dorsal; sometimes it is jointed at the base, and finally separates at the joint, sometimes it is knee-bent Or genien late; sometimes it is twisted, and liable to twist and untwist hygrornetrically; sometimes it is rough, or even serrate, at the edges, as in barley; sometimes it is feathery, as in feather-grass (stipa), which also is remarkable for the great length of its awn. The characters of geeera and species are often derived from it, but it is • not always invariable, even in the same species, and the cultivated varieties of wh'eat and oats differ much in being more or less bearded. There appears to be a tendency to the diminution or disappearance of the awn -through cultivation.