Avie (adv.) Emulously.
Avifauna (n.) The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.
Avigato (n.) See Avocado.
Avignon berry () The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.
Avile (v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.
Avis (n.) Advice; opinion; deliberation.
Avise (v. t.) To look at; to view; to think of.
Avise (v. t.) To advise; to counsel.
Avise (v. i.) To consider; to reflect.
Aviseful (a.) Watchful; circumspect.
Avisely (adv.) Advisedly.
Avisement (n.) Advisement; observation; deliberation.
Avision (n.) Vision.
Aviso (n.) Information; advice.
Aviso (n.) An advice boat, or dispatch boat.
Avocado (n.) The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.
Avocat (n.) An advocate.
Avocate (a.) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.
Avocation (n.) A calling away; a diversion.
Avocation (n.) That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Avocation (n.) Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Avocative (a.) Calling off.
Avocative (n.) That which calls aside; a dissuasive.
Avocet (n.) Alt. of Avoset
Avoset (n.) A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is R. Americana.
Avoided (imp. & p. p.) of Avoid
Avoiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avoid
Avoid (a.) To empty.
Avoid (a.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
Avoid (a.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
Avoid (a.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
Avoid (a.) To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
Avoid (a.) To get rid of.
Avoid (a.) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
Avoid (v. i.) To retire; to withdraw.
Avoid (v. i.) To become void or vacant.
Avoidable (a.) Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
Avoidable (a.) Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
Avoidance (n.) The act of annulling; annulment.
Avoidance (n.) The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
Avoidance (n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
Avoidance (n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
Avoidance (n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.
Avoider (n.) The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
Avoider (n.) One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
Avoidless (a.) Unavoidable; inevitable.
Avoirdupois (n.) Goods sold by weight.
Avoirdupois (n.) Avoirdupois weight.
Avoirdupois (n.) Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.
Avoke (v. t.) To call from or back again.
Avolate (v. i.) To fly away; to escape; to exhale.
Avolation (n.) The act of flying; flight; evaporation.
Avoset (n.) Same as Avocet.
Avouched (imp. & p. p.) of Avouch
Avouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avouch
Avouch (v. t.) To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
Avouch (v. t.) To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.
Avouch (v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.
Avouch (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
Avouch (n.) Evidence; declaration.
Avouchable (a.) Capable of being avouched.
Avoucher (n.) One who avouches.
Avouchment (n.) The act of avouching; positive declaration.
Avoutrer (n.) See Advoutrer.
Avoutrie (n.) Adultery.
Avowed (imp. & p. p.) of Avow
Avowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avow
Avow (v. t.) To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
Avow (v. t.) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.
Avow (n.) Avowal.
Avow (n.) To bind, or to devote, by a vow.
Avow (n.) A vow or determination.
Avowable (a.) Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence.
Avowal (n.) An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.
Avowance (n.) Act of avowing; avowal.
Avowance (n.) Upholding; defense; vindication.
Avowant (n.) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.
Avowed (a.) Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.
Avowee (n.) The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.
Avower (n.) One who avows or asserts.
Avowry (n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.
Avowry (n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.
Avowtry (v. t.) Adultery. See Advoutry.
Avoyer (n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.
Avulse (v. t.) To pluck or pull off.
Avulsion (n.) A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
Avulsion (n.) A fragment torn off.
Avulsion (n.) The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner.
Avuncular (a.) Of or pertaining to an uncle.
Awaited (imp. & p. p.) of Await
Awaiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Await
Await (v. t.) To watch for; to look out for.
Await (v. t.) To wait on, serve, or attend.
Await (v. t.) To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.
Await (v. t.) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.
Await (v. i.) To watch.
Await (v. i.) To wait (on or upon).
Await (v. i.) To wait; to stay in waiting.
Await (n.) A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.
Awoke (imp.) of Awake