Avena (n.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.
Avenaceous (a.) Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.
Avenage (n.) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
Avener (n.) An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.
Avenged (imp. & p. p.) of Avenge
Avenging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avenge
Avenge (v. t.) To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
Avenge (v. t.) To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
Avenge (v. i.) To take vengeance.
Avenge (n.) Vengeance; revenge.
Avengeance (n.) Vengeance.
Avengeful (a.) Vengeful.
Avengement (n.) The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
Avenger (n.) One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.
Avenger (n.) One who takes vengeance.
Avengeress (n.) A female avenger.
Avenious (a.) Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.
Avenor (n.) See Avener.
Avens (n.) A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.
Aventail (n.) The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.
Aventine (a.) Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.
Aventine (n.) A post of security or defense.
Aventre (v. t.) To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
Aventure (n.) Accident; chance; adventure.
Aventure (n.) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
Aventurine (n.) A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.
Aventurine (n.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
Avenue (n.) A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.
Avenue (n.) The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
Avenue (n.) A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
Aver (n.) A work horse, or working ox.
Averred (imp. & p. p.) of Aver
Averring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aver
Aver (v. t.) To assert, or prove, the truth of.
Aver (v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
Aver (v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
Average (n.) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
Average (n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
Average (n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
Average (n.) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
Average (n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
Average (n.) A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.
Average (n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
Average (n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
Average (a.) Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.
Average (a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
Averaged (imp. & p. p.) of Average
Averaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Average
Average (v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
Average (v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
Average (v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
Average (v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.
Avercorn (n.) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.
Averment (v. t.) The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.
Averment (v. t.) Verification; establishment by evidence.
Averment (v. t.) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
Avernal (a.) Alt. of Avernian
Avernian (a.) Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.
Averpenny (n.) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.
Averroism (n.) The tenets of the Averroists.
Averroist (n.) One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.
Averruncate (v. t.) To avert; to ward off.
Averruncate (v. t.) To root up.
Averruncation (n.) The act of averting.
Averruncation (n.) Eradication.
Averruncator (n.) An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.
Aversation (n.) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
Averse (a.) Turned away or backward.
Averse (a.) Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.
Averse (v. t. & i.) To turn away.
Aversely (adv.) Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.
Aversely (adv.) With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly.
Averseness (n.) The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
Aversion (n.) A turning away.
Aversion (n.) Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
Aversion (n.) The object of dislike or repugnance.
Averted (imp. & p. p.) of Avert
Averting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avert
Avert (n.) To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."
Avert (v. i.) To turn away.
Averted (a.) Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.
Averter (n.) One who, or that which, averts.
Avertible (a.) Capable of being averted; preventable.
Avertiment (n.) Advertisement.
Aves (n. pl.) The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.
Avesta (n.) The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.
Avian (a.) Of or instrument to birds.
Aviaries (pl. ) of Aviary
Aviary (n.) A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.
Aviation (n.) The art or science of flying.
Aviator (n.) An experimenter in aviation.
Aviator (n.) A flying machine.
Avicula (n.) A genus of marine bivalves, having a pearly interior, allied to the pearl oyster; -- so called from a supposed resemblance of the typical species to a bird.
Avicular (a.) Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.
Avicularia (n. pl.) See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.
Aviculture (n.) Rearing and care of birds.
Avid (a.) Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.
Avidious (a.) Avid.
Avidiously (adv.) Eagerly; greedily.
Avidity (n.) Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.