Webster's Dictionary 1828

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AVISO

AVI'SO, noun Advice; intelligence. [Not in use.]AVI'SE, verb intransitive s as z. To consider. [Not in use.]

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AVOCADO

AVOCA'DO, noun The Persea, or alligator-pear, a species ranked under the genus Laurus, a native of the W. Indies. The tree has a straight trunk, long oval pointed leaves, and fl...

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AVOCATE

AV'OCATE, verb transitive [Latin avoco, from a and voco, to call. See Voice and Vocal.]To call off, or away. [Not used.]

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AVOCATION

AVOCA'TION, noun [See Vocation, Voice, Vocal.]1. The act of calling aside, or diverting from some employment; as an avocation from sin or from business.2. The business which cal...

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AVOCATIVE

AVO'CATIVE, adjective Calling off. [Not used.]

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AVOID

AVOID', verb transitive [Eng. side, void, widow; Latin vidua, vito, evito. See Void.]1. To shun; to keep at a distance from; that is, literally, to go or be wide from; as, to av...

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AVOIDABLE

AVOID'ABLE, adjective1. That may be avoided, left at a distance, shunned or escaped.2. That may be vacated; liable to be annulled.

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AVOIDANCE

AVOID'ANCE, noun1. The act of avoiding, or shunning.2. The act of vacating, or the state of being vacant. It is appropriately used for the state of a benefice becoming void, by ...

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AVOIDED

AVOID'ED, participle passive Shunned; evaded; made void; ejected.

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AVOIDER

AVOID'ER, noun1. One who avoids, shuns or escapes.2. The person who carries any thing away; the vessel in which things are carried away.

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AVOIDING

AVOID'ING, participle present tense Shunning, escaping; keeping at a distance; ejecting; evacuating; making void, or vacant.

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AVOIDLESS

AVOID'LESS, adjective That cannot be avoided; inevitable.

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AVOIRDUPOIS

AVOIRDUPOIS', noun s as z. [See Poise.]A weight, of which a pound contains 16 ounces. Its proportion to a pound Troy is as 17 to 14. this is the weight for the larger and coarse...

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AVOLATION

AVOLA'TION, noun [Latin avolo, to fly away, of a and volo. See Volatile.]The act of flying away; flight; escape. [Little used.]

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AVOSET

AV'OSET,AVOSET'TA, noun In ornithology, a species of fowls, arranged under the genus, recurvirostra, and placed by Linne in the grallic order, but by Pennant and Latham, among t...

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AVOSETTA

AVOSET'TA, n. In ornithology, a species of fowls, arranged under the genus, recurvirostra, and placed by Linne in the grallic order, but by Pennant and Latham, among the palmipe...

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AVOUCH

AVOUCH', verb transitive [Latin voco, advoco. See Voice.]1. To affirm; to declare or assert with positiveness.2. To produce or call in; to affirm in favor of, maintain or suppor...

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AVOUCHABLE

AVOUCH'ABLE, adjective That may be avouched. [Little used.]

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AVOUCHED

AVOUCH'ED, participle passive Affirmed; maintained; called in to support.

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AVOUCHER

AVOUCH'ER, noun One who avouches.

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AVOUCHING

AVOUCH'ING, participle present tense Affirming; calling in to maintain; vindicating.

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AVOUCHMENT

AVOUCH'MENT, noun Declaration; the act of avouching.

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AVOW

AVOW', verb transitive [Latin voveo.]1. To declare openly, with a view to justify, maintain or defend; or simply to own, acknowledge or confess frankly; as, a man avows his prin...

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AVOWABLE

AVOW'ABLE, adjective That may be avowed, or openly acknowledged with confidence.

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AVOWAL

AVOW'AL, noun An open declaration; frank acknowledgment.

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AVOWANT

AVOW'ANT, noun The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

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AVOWED

AVOW'ED, participle passive Openly declared; owned; frankly acknowledged.