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  • English Word Ave Mary Definition A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church.
  • English Word Ave Mary Definition A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria.
  • English Word Avel Definition To pull away.
  • English Word Avellane Definition In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.
  • English Word Avena Definition A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.
  • English Word Avenaceous Definition Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.
  • English Word Avenage Definition A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.
  • English Word Avener Definition An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.
  • English Word Avenge Definition To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
  • English Word Avenge Definition To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
  • English Word Avenge Definition To take vengeance.
  • English Word Avenge Definition Vengeance; revenge.
  • English Word Avengeance Definition Vengeance.
  • English Word Avenged Definition of Avenge
  • English Word Avengeful Definition Vengeful.
  • English Word Avengement Definition The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.
  • English Word Avenger Definition One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.
  • English Word Avenger Definition One who takes vengeance.
  • English Word Avengeress Definition A female avenger.
  • English Word Avenging Definition of Avenge
  • English Word Avenious Definition Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.
  • English Word Avenor Definition See Avener.
  • English Word Avens Definition A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.
  • English Word Aventail Definition The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.
  • English Word Aventine Definition Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.
  • English Word Aventine Definition A post of security or defense.
  • English Word Aventre Definition To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
  • English Word Aventure Definition Accident; chance; adventure.
  • English Word Aventure Definition A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
  • English Word Aventurine Definition 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.