| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| availed | imp. & past participle | of Avail |
| avarice | noun | An excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity., An inordinate desire for some supposed good. |
| avarous | adjective | Avaricious. |
| avaunce | verb t. & i. | To advance; to profit. |
| avenage | noun | A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. |
| avenged | imp. & past participle | of Avenge |
| avenger | noun | One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood., One who takes vengeance. |
| aventre | verb t. | To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. |
| averred | imp. & past participle | of Aver |
| average | noun | 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., A tariff or duty on goods, etc., Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped., A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils., The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested., 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., Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc., In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets., 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., According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution., To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean., To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss., To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average., 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. |
| avernal | adjective | Alt. of Avernian |
| averted | imp. & past participle | of Avert, Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. |
| averter | noun | One who, or that which, averts. |
| aviator | noun | An experimenter in aviation., A flying machine. |
| avicula | noun | 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. |
| avidity | noun | Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. |
| avigato | noun | See Avocado. |
| avisely | adverb | Advisedly. |
| avision | noun | Vision. |
| avocado | noun | 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. |
| avocate | adjective | To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. |
| avoided | imp. & past participle | of Avoid |
| avoider | noun | The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away., One who avoids, shuns, or escapes. |
| avolate | verb i. | To fly away; to escape; to exhale. |
| avowing | present participle & vb. noun | of Avow |
| avowant | noun | The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. |
| avowtry | verb t. | Adultery. See Advoutry. |