awa

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But awa, awa, if ye wad save your young blood from a shamefu' death--I see the men out by yonder that are come ower late to part ye--but, out and alack!

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  1. A Scotch form of away.
  2. A name, in Hawaii and other islands of Polynesia, of a plant of the pepper family, Piper methysticum, from which the natives prepare a beverage.
  3. The beverage prepared from awa. See kava.

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  1. Hawaiian awa (= Samoan ava, = Maori kawa, kawa-kàwa), the plant and the drink, < Hawaiian awa, etc., sour, bitter, sharp, pungent. See kava.
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