The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

A post of security or defense.

To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

Accident; chance; adventure.

A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit.

To assert, or prove, the truth of.

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.

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.

The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.

Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

The tenets of the Averroists.

One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the doctrine of monopsychism.

To avert; to ward off.

The act of averting.

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; a tree pruner.

A turning from with dislike; aversion.

To turn away.

Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.

The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

A turning away.

of or pertaining to aversion.

To turn away.

Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.

One who, or that which, averts.

Capable of being averted; preventable.

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The class of Vertebrata that includes the birds.

The Zoroastrian scriptures; the sacred text of Zoroastrianism. See Zend-Avesta.

Of or pertaining to the Avesta or the language of the Avesta. The language of the Avesta (an ancient Iranian language); -- less properly called Zend.

One who works a mine with means provided by another.

Of or instrument to birds.

to modify microorganisms by repeated culture in the developing chick embryo.

A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.

fly an airplane.

To fly, or navigate the air, in an a/roplane or heavier-than-air flying machine.

The art or science of flying.

An experimenter in aviation.

A woman aviator (in senses 1 or 3).

a family name used in some classifications: coextensive with the genus Avicennia.

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.

Of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.

See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.

Rearing and care of birds.

Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.

Avid.

Eagerly; greedily.

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.

Emulously.

A heavier-than-air flying machine in which the motive power is furnished solely by the aviator.

The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

See Avocado.

To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

Advice; opinion; deliberation.

To consider; to reflect.

Watchful; circumspect.

Advisedly.

Advisement; observation; deliberation.

Vision.

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.

An advocate.

To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

A calling away; a diversion.

That which calls aside; a dissuasive.

To retire; to withdraw.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.

The act of annulling; annulment.

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.

Unavoidable; inevitable.

Goods sold by weight.

To call from or back again.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale.

The act of flying; flight; evaporation.

Same as Avocet.

A grallatorial bird, of the genus Recurvirostra; the scooper. The bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. The American species is Recurvirostra Americana.

Evidence; declaration.

Capable of being avouched.

One who avouches.

The act of avouching; positive declaration.

See Advoutrer.

Adultery.

A vow or determination.

Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence.

An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

Act of avowing; avowal.

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.

The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

One who avows or asserts.

An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

Adultery. See Advoutry.

A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.

To pluck or pull off.

A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.

Of or pertaining to an uncle.

A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.

expected. Opposite of unexpected.

Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

One who, or that which, awakens.

The act of awaking, or ceasing to sleep. Specifically: A revival of religion, or more general attention to religious matters than usual.

An awakening.

Missing; wanting.

A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.

One who awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.

Watchful; vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.

conscious knowledge; as, he had no awareness of his mistakes.

To warn.

Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore; flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it; -- of an anchor, etc.

From a place; hence.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops.

the state of being elsewhere than in particular place.

Turned away; away.

To strike with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread.

Awe-struck.

Struck with awe.

Wearied.

Weary.

On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather!