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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Awn \Awn\, n. [OE. awn, agune, from Icel. ["o]gn, pl. agnir;
     akin to Sw. agn, Dan. avne, Goth. ahana, OHG. agana, G. agen,
     ahne, chaff, Gr. ?, AS. egla; prob. from same root as E.
     acute. See 3d {Ear}. ?1.] (Bot.)
     The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any
     similar bristlelike appendage; arista. --Gray.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  awn
       n : slender bristlelike appendage found on the bracts of grasses

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