Webster's Dictionary 1913

7534

Avens

Av″ens (�), n. [OF. avence.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

7535

Aventail

Av″en‐tail (�), n. [OF. esventail. Cf. Ventail.] The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

7536

Aventine

Av″en‐tine (�), a. Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood. Bryant.

7537

Aventine (2)

Av″en‐tine, n. A post of security or defense.Into the castle's tower,The only Aventine that now is left him.Beau. & Fl.

7538

Aventre

A‐ven″tre (�), v. t. To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. Spenser.

7539

Aventure

A‐ven″ture (?; 135), n. [See Adventure, n.] 1. Accident; chance; adventure. Chaucer.2. (Old Law) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling ...

7540

Aventurine

A‐ven″tu‐rine (�), n. [F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino.] 1. A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par avent...

7541

Avenue

Av″e‐nue (�), n. [F. avenue, fr. avenir to come to, L. advenire. See Advene.] 1. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of ...

7542

Aver

A″ver (ā″vẽr), n. [OF. aver domestic animal, whence LL. averia, pl. cattle. See Habit, and cf. Average.] A work horse, or working ox.

7543

Aver (2)

A‐ver″ (ȧ‐vẽr″), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Averred (ȧ*vẽrd"); p. pr. & vb. n.Averring.] [F. avérer, LL. adverare, averare; L. ad + versus true. See Verity.] 1. To assert, or prove, the...

7544

Average

Av″er‐age (�), n. [OF. average, LL. averagium, prob. fr. OF. aver, F. avoir, property, horses, cattle, etc.; prop. infin., to have, from L. habere to have. Cf. F. avérage small ...

7545

Average (2)

Av″er‐age (�), a. 1. 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 prof...

7546

Average (3)

Av″er‐age, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Averaged (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Averaging.] 1. To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.2. To divide among a numb...

7547

Average (4)

Av″er‐age, 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 eac...

7548

Avercorn

A″ver‐corn′ (�), n. [Aver, n. + corn.] (Old Eng. Law) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet.

7549

Averment

A‐ver″ment (�), n. [Cf. OF. averement, LL. averamentum. See Aver, v. t.] 1. The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.Signally has this aver...

7550

Avernal

{ A‐ver″nal (�), A‐ver″ni‐an (�), } a. Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignan...

7551

Averpenny

Av″er‐pen′ny (�), n. [Aver, n. + penny.] (Old Eng. Law) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

7552

Averroism

A‐ver″ro‐ism (�), n. The tenets of the Averroists.

7553

Averroist

A‐ver″ro‐ist, 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 Ar...

7554

Averruncate

Av′er‐run″cate (�), v. t. [L. averruncare to avert; a, ab, off + verruncare to turn; formerly derived from ab and eruncare to root out. Cf. Aberuncate.] 1. To avert; to ward off...

7555

Averruncation

Av′er‐run‐ca″tion (�), n. [Cf. OF. averroncation.] 1. The act of averting.2. Eradication. De Quincey.

7556

Averruncator

Av′er‐run‐ca″tor (�), n. [Cf. Aberuncator.] An instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.

7557

Averruncator (2)

Av′er‐run‐ca″tor (?), n. An instrument for pruning trees, having two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on a long rod and operated by a string or wire.

7558

Aversation

Av′er‐sa″tion (�), n. [L. aversatio, fr. aversari to turn away, v. intens. of avertere. See Avert.] A turning from with dislike; aversion.Some men have a natural aversation to s...

7559

Averse

A‐verse″ (�), a. [L. aversus, p. p. of avertere. See Avert.] 1. Turned away or backward.The tracks averse a lying notice gave,And led the searcher backward from the cave.Dryden....

7560

Averse (2)

A‐verse″, v. t. & i. To turn away. B. Jonson.