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  • English Word Avowed Definition Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.
  • English Word Avowee Definition The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.
  • English Word Avower Definition One who avows or asserts.
  • English Word Avowing Definition of Avow
  • English Word Avowry Definition An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.
  • English Word Avowry Definition The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.
  • English Word Avowtry Definition Adultery. See Advoutry.
  • English Word Avoyer Definition A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland.
  • English Word Avulse Definition To pluck or pull off.
  • English Word Avulsion Definition A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
  • English Word Avulsion Definition A fragment torn off.
  • English Word Avulsion Definition 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.
  • English Word Avuncular Definition Of or pertaining to an uncle.
  • English Word Await Definition To watch for; to look out for.
  • English Word Await Definition To wait on, serve, or attend.
  • English Word Await Definition To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.
  • English Word Await Definition To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.
  • English Word Await Definition To watch.
  • English Word Await Definition To wait (on or upon).
  • English Word Await Definition To wait; to stay in waiting.
  • English Word Await Definition A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.
  • English Word Awaited Definition of Await
  • English Word Awaiting Definition of Await
  • English Word Awake Definition To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.
  • English Word Awake Definition To rouse from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity., or inaction; to put into action; to give new life to; to stir up; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.
  • English Word Awake Definition To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep; and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction or death.
  • English Word Awake Definition Not sleeping or lethargic; roused from sleep; in a state of vigilance or action.
  • English Word Awaked Definition of Awake
  • English Word Awaked Definition of Awake
  • English Word Awaken Definition of Awake