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    Await \A*wait"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Awaited}; p. pr. & vb. n.
    {Awaiting}.] [OF. awaitier, agaitier; ? (L. ad) + waitier,
    gaitier to watch, F. guetter. See {Wait}.]
    1. To watch for; to look out for. [Obs.]

    2. To wait on, serve, or attend. [Obs.]

    3. To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See {Expect}.

    Betwixt these rocky pillars Gabriel sat,
    Chief of the angelic guards, awaiting night.
    --Milton.

    4. To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a
    glorious reward awaits the good.

    O Eve, some farther change awaits us night.
    --Milton.

    1. A second person who ate poisonous mushrooms at a dinner party underwent a liver transplant operation Friday, and another person was awaiting a donor.
    2. The agency also acknowledged last week that many aircraft owners may have postponed purchase of Mode C units awaiting the outcome of an aircraft owners' challenge to the rule, which the FAA rejected only two weeks ago.
    3. Ronnie, 7, died at Pittsburgh Children's Hospital in April 1987 while awaiting his fourth transplant.
    4. The invitations have gone out, and hundreds of monkeys are eagerly awaiting their second annual sit-down brunch courtesy of a hotel owner.
    5. One man was handcuffed and all passengers were removed from a Continental airplane awaiting takeoff from LaGuardia Airport on Thursday in what turned out to be a groundless threat, authorities said.
    6. But he did not telegraph to skeptical liberals or to newly wary conservatives just where he would stand on the questions awaiting the closely divided court - matters including abortion, civil rights and criminal justice.
    7. A 20-year-old Dallas man and a 19-year-old Garland woman were in jail Wednesday awaiting arraignment on burglary and theft charges.
    8. It was approved last year by the Senate Judiciary Committee and is awaiting action by the full Senate.
    9. "We've heard talk of loosening things up," he said, "but we are awaiting action." Others at the meeting at the Soviet Embassy were Reps.
    10. "About all it means is that we are losing a shareholder. This will not impair our ability to raise capital" for the previously proposed expansion of TransCanada's system in 1991-1992, he said, which is currently awaiting Canadian regulatory approval.
    11. Ground also is being broken for a new jail to hold inmates awaiting trial.
    12. Another gene-therapy experiment, also approved by NIH last week and awaiting FDA clearance, would treat patients with a lethal form of skin cancer.
    13. That was one of the incidents that eventually led the United States to invade Panama Dec. 20 and oust Noriega, now jailed in Miami awaiting trial on drug-trafficking charges.
    14. A UN investigator yesterday urged Russia to release 71,000 people awaiting trial in what he called inhuman and overcrowded conditions.
    15. I, for one, am eagerly awaiting a colorized "Casablanca."
    16. The settlement, attached to the defense appropriations bill currently awaiting action by the full Senate, expresses support for the SDI, but only as a research program.
    17. But that's not the end of Gage, and only the beginning of the horror awaiting the Creeds.
    18. Miranda is the fourth co-defendant awaiting trial on charges of assisting Noriega in drug trafficking.
    19. Still awaiting the reply he never got from Mr. Petit, Dr. Yanev was arrested last summer attempting to scale the Pont Massena, 60 feet above Parisian railroad tracks.
    20. So have the attorneys for U.S. District Judge Alcee Hastings of Florida, who also is awaiting a verdict.
    21. He is awaiting sentencing in New York.
    22. Caro-Quintero is in custody awaiting trial in Mexico City.
    23. Mr. Boesky has pleaded guilty to a felony connected with the insider-trading investigation and is awaiting sentencing.
    24. Few believe the promise of President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua that it is safe for them to return peacefully, and many see death awaiting them in the Nicaraguan jungle.
    25. Other dealers said market participants were awaiting the release of U.S. economic figures this week, including a report on orders for durable goods, due later today in Washington, and estimates of third-quarter growth in the gross national product.
    26. The two sailors are in pre-trial detention awaiting court martial by the Navy.
    27. The school board was awaiting written confirmation of Ward's condition from his physician in Indianapolis, Jobe said.
    28. Because an additional 1,572 bales are awaiting decertification, while just 351 bales are awaiting certification so they can be added to the exchange's stocks, inventories could fall below 29,000 bales.
    29. Because an additional 1,572 bales are awaiting decertification, while just 351 bales are awaiting certification so they can be added to the exchange's stocks, inventories could fall below 29,000 bales.
    30. "It's just a matter of getting the right person to come to one of our drives," said Miss Atlas, one of 9,000 people awaiting a donor.
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