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.

Information; advice.

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.

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!

Just drawn out of the ground, and hanging perpendicularly; atrip; -- said of the anchor.

See Awless.

Causing awe; appalling; awful; as, an awesome sight.

The quality of being awesome.

Oppressing with fear or horror; appalling; terrible; as, an awful scene.

In an awful manner; in a manner to fill with terror or awe; fearfully; reverently.

The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.

To confound; to terrify; to amaze.

For a while; for some time; for a short time.

On the wing; flying; fluttering.

Perversely; in the wrong way.

In an unlucky (left-handed) or perverse manner.

Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a trick; an awkward boy.

A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the brad awl, saddler's awl, shoemaker's awl, etc.