Dictionary entry

Avail (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

A‐vail″ (�), n. 1. Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.

The avail of a deathbed repentance.

Jer. Taylor.

2. pl. Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

The avails of their own industry.

Stoddard.

Syn. — Use; benefit; utility; profit; service.