A-wāy', adv.

adv. [Prefix a and way, q. v., A-S. awæg, anweg, onweg, M. H. Ger. en weg, Ger. weg, Prov. Ger. eweg.] Absent; at a distance; as, the master is away from home. “Have me away, for I am sore wounded.” 2 Chron. xxxv. 23.

☞ It is much used in phrases 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.” Waller. As an exclamation, it is a command or invitation to depart; away, that is, be gone. When joined to verbs, it serves to modify their sense by adding that of loss, distance, &c.; as, to throw away; to trifle away; to drink away; to squander away, &c.—Away with has sometimes a peculiar signification in the phrase, “I can not away with it” (Isa. i. 13), i. e., “I can not bear or endure it.”—Away with one, signifies, take him away. “Away with him, crucify him.” John xix. 15.—To make away with, to kill or destroy.—Away-going. (Law.) Sown during the last year of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration;—said of crops. Wharton.