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- English Word Aventurine Definition A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
- English Word Avenue Definition 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.
- English Word Avenue Definition The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- English Word Avenue Definition A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
- English Word Aver Definition A work horse, or working ox.
- English Word Aver Definition To assert, or prove, the truth of.
- English Word Aver Definition To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
- English Word Aver Definition To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
- English Word Average Definition 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.
- English Word Average Definition A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
- English Word Average Definition Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
- English Word Average Definition A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
- English Word Average Definition The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
- English Word Average Definition 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.
- English Word Average Definition Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
- English Word Average Definition In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
- English Word Average Definition 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.
- English Word Average Definition According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
- English Word Average Definition To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
- English Word Average Definition To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
- English Word Average Definition To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
- English Word Average Definition 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.
- English Word Averaged Definition of Average
- English Word Averaging Definition of Average
- English Word Avercorn Definition A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.
- English Word Averment Definition The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.
- English Word Averment Definition Verification; establishment by evidence.
- English Word Averment Definition A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
- English Word Avernal Definition Alt. of Avernian
- English Word Avernian Definition 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.