Avarartu
A Nilnameshi Lord of the Ordeal.

Avowals
The Avowels is a classic text by Olekaros , which poses as a “spiritual exploration” but is in actual fact little more than a collection of wise sayings from various thinkers in various nations. Its Sheyic translation enjoys widespread popularity among caste -noble lay readers in the Three Seas .

Extracts

“When we truly apprehend the Gods , the Nilnameshi sages say, we recognize them not as kings but as thieves. This is among the wisest of blasphemies, for we always see the king who cheats us, never the thief.”

Avowels
The Avowels is a classic text by Olekaros , which poses as a “spiritual exploration” but is in actual fact little more than a collection of wise sayings from various thinkers in various nations. Its Sheyic translation enjoys widespread popularity among caste -noble lay readers in the Three Seas .

Extracts

“When we truly apprehend the Gods , the Nilnameshi sages say, we recognize them not as kings but as thieves. This is among the wisest of blasphemies, for we always see the king who cheats us, never the thief.”

ava
-same as kava.

avadavat
-same as amadavat.

avaiably
-in an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

avail
-to turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
-to promote; to assist.
-to be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
-profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
-proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
-see avale, v.

availabilities
-of availability

availability
-the quality of being available; availableness.
-that which is available.

available
-having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.
-such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.

availableness
-competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
-quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended.

availed
-of avail

availing
-of avail

availment
-profit; advantage.

avalanche
-a large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
-a fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
-a sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.

avale
-to cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.
-to bring low; to abase.
-to descend; to fall; to dismount.

avant
-the front of an army. [obs.] see van.

avant
-courier
-a person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

avant
-guard
-the van or advanced body of an army. see vanguard.

avarice
-an excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity.
-an inordinate desire for some supposed good.

avaricious
-actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

avarous
-avaricious.

avast
-cease; stop; stay.

avatar
-the descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal;
-- chiefly associated with the incarnations of vishnu.
-incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.

avaunce
-to advance; to profit.

avaunt
-begone; depart;
-- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "get thee gone."
-to advance; to move forward; to elevate.
-to depart; to move away.
-to vaunt; to boast.
-a vaunt; to boast.

avauntour
-a boaster.

ave
-an ave maria.
-a reverential salutation.

ave maria
-alt. of ave mary

ave mary
-a salutation and prayer to the virgin mary, as mother of god;
-- used in the roman catholic church.
-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.

avel
-to pull away.

avellane
-in the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

avena
-a genus of grasses, including the common oat (avena sativa); the oat grasses.

avenaceous
-belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

avenage
-a quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.

avener
-an officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.

avenge
-to take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
-to treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on.
-to take vengeance.
-vengeance; revenge.

avengeance
-vengeance.

avenged
-of avenge

avengeful
-vengeful.

avengement
-the inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken.

avenger
-one who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.
-one who takes vengeance.

avengeress
-a female avenger.

avenging
-of avenge

avenious
-being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.

avenor
-see avener.

avens
-a plant of the genus geum, esp. geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

aventail
-the movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

aventine
-pertaining to mons aventinus, one of the seven hills on which rome stood.
-a post of security or defense.

aventre
-to thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.

aventure
-accident; chance; adventure.
-a mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

aventurine
-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 variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

avenue
-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.
-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.
-a broad street; as, the fifth avenue in new york.

aver
-a work horse, or working ox.
-to assert, or prove, the truth of.
-to avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. see averment.
-to affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.

average
-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.
-a tariff or duty on goods, etc.
-any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
-a contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
-the equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
-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.
-any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
-in the english corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
-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.
-according to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
-to find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
-to divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
-to do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
-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.

averaged
-of average

averaging
-of average

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

averment
-the act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.
-verification; establishment by evidence.
-a positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

avernal
-alt. of avernian

avernian
-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.

averpenny
-money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

averred
-of aver

averring
-of aver

averroism
-the tenets of the averroists.

averroist
-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.

averruncate
-to avert; to ward off.
-to root up.

averruncation
-the act of averting.
-eradication.

averruncator
-an instrument for pruning trees, consisting of two blades, or a blade and a hook, fixed on the end of a long rod.

aversation
-a turning from with dislike; aversion.

averse
-turned away or backward.
-having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.
-to turn away.

aversely
-backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.
-with repugnance or aversion; unwillingly.

averseness
-the quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

aversion
-a turning away.
-opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
-the object of dislike or repugnance.

avert
-to turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "to avert his ire."
-to turn away.

averted
-of avert
-turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious.

averter
-one who, or that which, averts.

avertible
-capable of being averted; preventable.

avertiment
-advertisement.

averting
-of avert

aves
-the class of vertebrata that includes the birds.

avesta
-the zoroastrian scriptures. see zend
-avesta.

avian
-of or instrument to birds.

aviaries
-of aviary

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

aviation
-the art or science of flying.

aviator
-an experimenter in aviation.
-a flying machine.

avicula
-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.

avicular
-of or pertaining to a bird or to birds.

avicularia
-see prehensile processes on the cells of some bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.

aviculture
-rearing and care of birds.

avid
-longing eagerly for; eager; greedy.

avidious
-avid.

avidiously
-eagerly; greedily.

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

avie
-emulously.

avifauna
-the birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.

avigato
-see avocado.

avignon berry
-the fruit of the rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus;
-- so called from the city of avignon, in france. it is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. called also french berry.

avile
-to abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate.

avis
-advice; opinion; deliberation.

avise
-to look at; to view; to think of.
-to advise; to counsel.
-to consider; to reflect.

aviseful
-watchful; circumspect.

avisely
-advisedly.

avisement
-advisement; observation; deliberation.

avision
-vision.

aviso
-information; advice.
-an advice boat, or dispatch boat.

avocado
-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.

avocat
-an advocate.

avocate
-to call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal.

avocation
-a calling away; a diversion.
-that which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
-pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.

avocative
-calling off.
-that which calls aside; a dissuasive.

avocet
-alt. of avoset

avoid
-to empty.
-to emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions.
-to quit or evacuate; to withdraw from.
-to make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
-to keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters.
-to get rid of.
-to defeat or evade; to invalidate. thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter.
-to retire; to withdraw.
-to become void or vacant.

avoidable
-capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
-capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

avoidance
-the act of annulling; annulment.
-the act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant;
-- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.
-a dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
-the act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of.
-the courts by which anything is carried off.

avoided
-of avoid

avoider
-the person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.
-one who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

avoiding
-of avoid

avoidless
-unavoidable; inevitable.

avoirdupois
-goods sold by weight.
-avoirdupois weight.
-weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.

avoke
-to call from or back again.

avolate
-to fly away; to escape; to exhale.

avolation
-the act of flying; flight; evaporation.

avoset
-a grallatorial bird, of the genus recurvirostra; the scooper. the bill is long and bend upward toward the tip. the american species is r. americana.
-same as avocet.

avouch
-to appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.
-to maintain a just or true; to vouch for.
-to declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.
-to acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
-evidence; declaration.

avouchable
-capable of being avouched.

avouched
-of avouch

avoucher
-one who avouches.

avouching
-of avouch

avouchment
-the act of avouching; positive declaration.

avoutrer
-see advoutrer.

avoutrie
-adultery.

avow
-to declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
-to acknowledge and justify, as an act done. see avowry.
-avowal.
-to bind, or to devote, by a vow.
-a vow or determination.

avowable
-capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence.

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

avowance
-act of avowing; avowal.
-upholding; defense; vindication.

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

avowed
-of avow
-openly acknowledged or declared; admitted.

avowee
-the person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. see advowson.

avower
-one who avows or asserts.

avowing
-of avow

avowry
-an advocate; a patron; a patron saint.
-the act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.

avowtry
-adultery. see advoutry.

avoyer
-a chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of switzerland.

avulse
-to pluck or pull off.

avulsion
-a tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
-a fragment torn off.
-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.

avuncular
-of or pertaining to an uncle.