Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter A - Page 114
Avie (adv.) Emulously. [Obs.]
Avifauna (n.) (Zool.) 某一地區之鳥類 The birds, or all the kinds of birds, inhabiting a region.
Avifauna (n.) The birds of a particular region or period.
Avigato (n.) See {Avocado}.
Compare: Avocado
Avocado (n.) (pl. avocados) 【植】鱷梨，酪梨；鱷梨樹，酪梨樹 A pear-shaped fruit with a rough leathery skin, smooth oily edible flesh, and a large stone.
Also called alligator pear.
‘Serve with slices of avocado.’
Avocado (n.) A light green color like that of the flesh of avocados.
‘The shirt I got was lime green and avocado with three-quarter length sleeves.’
Avocado (n.) The tropical evergreen tree that bears the avocado, native to Central America and widely cultivated elsewhere.
// Persea americana, family Lauraceae.
‘These include exotic ylang ylang, jasmine, turmeric, ginger, allspice, cinnamon, curry leaf, water lilies, mahogany trees, avocados, wax apples, and five varieties of mango.’
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.
{French berry} (Bot.), The berry of a species of buckthorn ({Rhamnus catharticus}), which affords a saffron, green or purple pigment.
{French berry} (Bot.) A small berry, the fruit of certain species of buckthorn, used in dyeing yellow.
Avile (v. t.) To abase or debase; to vilify; to depreciate. [Obs.]
Want makes us know the price of what we avile. -- B. Jonson.
Avis (n.) Advice; opinion; deliberation. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
AVIS, () AuftragsVerwaltungs- und InformationsSYstem (MBAG)
Rara avis (n.) 【拉】罕見的人（或事物）Another term for rare bird.
Rare bird (n.) An exceptional person or thing; a rarity.
‘The style is a rare bird in Brazilian music.’
Avise (v. t.) To look at; to view; to think of. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Avise (v. t.) To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] -- Shak.
To avise one's self, To consider with one's self, to reflect, to deliberate. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be, Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood. -- Spenser.
Avise (v. i.) To consider; to reflect. [Obs.]
Aviseful (a.) Watchful; circumspect. [Obs.]
With sharp, aviseful eye. -- Spenser.
Avisely (adv.) Advisedly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Avisement (n.) Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]
Avision (n.) Vision. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Aviso (n.) [Sp.] Information; advice.
Aviso (n.) [Sp.] An advice boat, or dispatch boat.
Avocado (n.) 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.
Avocado (a.) Of the dull yellowish green of the meat of an avocado.
Avocado (n.) A pear-shaped tropical fruit with green or blackish skin and rich yellowish pulp enclosing a single large seed [syn: avocado, alligator pear, avocado pear, aguacate].
Avocado (n.) Tropical American tree bearing large pulpy green fruits [syn: avocado, avocado tree, Persea Americana].
Avocat (n.) [F.] An advocate.
Avocate (a.) To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic]
One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. -- Barrow.
He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. -- Robertson.
Avocation (n.) 副業；興趣；愛好；【口】職業 A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic]
Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. -- South.
Avocation (n.) That which calls one away from one's regular employment or vocation.
Heaven is his vocation, and therefore he counts earthly employments avocations. -- Fuller.
By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. -- Atterbury.
Note: In this sense the word is applied to the smaller affairs of life, or occasional calls which summon a person to leave his ordinary or principal business.
Avocation (in the singular) For vocation is usually avoided by good writers.
Avocation (n.) pl. Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
There are professions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. -- Richardson.
In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. -- Macaulay.
An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a shepherd, rather than the more fixed pursuits of agriculture. -- Buckle.
Avocation (n.) An auxiliary activity [syn: avocation, by-line, hobby, pursuit, sideline, spare-time activity].
Avocative (a.) Calling off. [Obs.]
Avocative (n.) That which calls aside; a dissuasive.
Avocet (n.) Alt. of Avoset
Avoset (n.) 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. [Written also avocette.]
Avocet (n.) Long-legged web-footed black-and-white shorebird with slender upward-curving bill.
Avoided (imp. & p. p.) of Avoid
Avoiding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avoid
Avoid (v. i.) To retire; to withdraw. [Obs.]
David avoided out of his presence. -- 1 Sam. xviii. 11.
Avoid (v. i.) (Law) To become void or vacant. [Obs.] -- Ayliffe.
Avoid (v. t.) 避開，躲開；避免 [（n./+v-ing）]；【律】使無效；撤銷 To empty. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Avoid (v. t.) To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Avoid (v. t.) To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [Obs.]
Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. -- Bacon.
Avoid (v. t.) To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute.
How can these grants of the king's be avoided? -- Spenser.
Avoid (v. t.) 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.
What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid ? -- Milton.
He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. -- Macaulay.
Avoid (v. t.) To get rid of. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Avoid (v. t.) (Pleading) 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. -- Blackstone.
Syn: To escape; elude; evade; eschew.
Usage: To Avoid, Shun. Avoid in its commonest sense means, to keep clear of, an extension of the meaning, to withdraw one's self from. It denotes care taken not to come near or in contact; as, to avoid certain persons or places. Shun is a stronger term, implying more prominently the idea of intention. The words may, however, in many cases be interchanged.
No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it. -- Mason.
So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox, Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks. -- Dryden.
Avoid (v.) Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something; "Her former friends now avoid her" [ant: confront, face, face up].
Avoid (v.) Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening; "Let's avoid a confrontation"; "head off a confrontation"; "avert a strike" [syn: debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect, avert, head off, stave off, fend off, avoid, ward off].
Avoid (v.) Refrain from doing something; "She refrains from calling her therapist too often"; "He should avoid publishing his wife's memories".
Avoid (v.) Refrain from certain foods or beverages; "I keep off drugs"; "During Ramadan, Muslims avoid tobacco during the day" [syn: keep off, avoid].
Avoid (v.) Declare invalid; "The contract was annulled"; "void a plea" [syn: invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid, nullify] [ant: formalise, formalize, validate].
Avoidable (a.) 能避免的；可迴避的；可作為無效的 Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.
The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. -- Hale.
Avoidable (a.) Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.
Avoidable (a.) Capable of being avoided or warded off [syn: evitable, avoidable, avertible, avertable] [ant: inevitable].
Avoidance (n.) 逃避；迴避；躲避；【律】無效；廢止；（職位的）空缺 The act of annulling; annulment.
Avoidance (n.) 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.
Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. -- Fuller.
Avoidance (n.) A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.
Avoidance (n.) The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. "The avoidance of pain." -- Beattie.
Avoidance (n.) The courts by which anything is carried off.
Avoidances and drainings of water. -- Bacon.
Avoidance (n.) Deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening [syn: avoidance, turning away, shunning, dodging].
Avoider (n.) The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. -- Johnson.
Avoider (n.) One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
Avoidless (a.) 無法避免的 Unavoidable; inevitable.
Avoirdupois (n.) Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]
Avoirdupois (n.) 【美】【口】體重；肥胖；常衡 Avoirdupois weight.
Avoirdupois (n.) Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.
Avoirdupois weight, A system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.
Note: The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62[deg] Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton.
The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144 pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240 pounds (sometimes called a long ton).
Avoirdupois (n.) A system of weights based on the 16-ounce pound (or 7,000 grains) [syn: avoirdupois, avoirdupois weight].
Avoirdupois (n.) Excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness].
Avoirdupois (n.) Avoirdupois is synonymous with weight and heaviness, especially as related to the body.
It also refers to the series of units of weight based on the pound of 16 ounces and the ounce of 16 drams.
// The coach limited his recruiting to linebackers of a certain avoirdupois.
Avoke (v. t.) To call from or back again.
Avolate (v. i.) To fly away; to escape; to exhale.
Avolation (n.) The act of flying; flight; evaporation.
Avoset (n.) Same as Avocet.
Avouched (imp. & p. p.) of Avouch
Avouching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avouch
Avouch (v. t.) (v. t.) 主張；斷言；確言；聲言；保證，擔保 (v. i.) 保證 To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.]
They avouch many successions of authorities. -- Coke.
Avouch (v. t.) To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.
We might be disposed to question its authenticity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. -- Milman.
Avouch (v. t.) To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.
If this which he avouches does appear. -- Shak.
Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish. -- Spenser.
Avouch (v. t.) To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.
Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. -- Deut. xxvi. 17.
Avouch (n.) Evidence; declaration. [Obs.]
The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. -- Shak.
Avouch (v.) Admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [syn: avow, avouch] [ant: disavow].
Avouchable (a.) Capable of being avouched.
Avoucher (n.) One who avouches.
Avouchment (n.) The act of avouching; positive declaration. [Obs.] -- Milton.
Avouchment (n.) A statement asserting the existence or the truth of something [syn: avowal, avouchment, affirmation].
Avoutrer (n.) See Advoutrer. [Obs.]
Avoutrie (n.) Adultery. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Avowed (imp. & p. p.) of Avow
Avowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avow
Avow (n.) Avowal. [Obs.] -- Dryden.
Avow (v. t. & i.) (v. t.) 坦率承認；公開表示 [+（that）]；自稱；自認 [O2] [O9] To bind, or to devote, by a vow. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Avow (n.) A vow or determination. [Archaic]
Avow (v. t.) To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.
Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. -- Milton.
Avow (v. t.) (Law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. -- Blackstone.
Syn: To acknowledge; own; confess. See {Confess}.
Avow (v.) To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true; "Before God I swear I am innocent" [syn: affirm, verify, assert, avow, aver, swan, swear].
Avow (v.) Admit openly and bluntly; make no bones about [syn: avow, avouch] [ant: disavow].
Avow or Advow, () practice. Signifies to justify or maintain an act formerly done. For example, when replevin is brought for a thing distrained, and the distrainer justifies the taking, he is said to avow. Termes de la Ley. This word also signifies to bring forth anything. Formerly when a stolen thing was found in the possession of any one" he was bound advocare, i. e. to produce the seller from whom he alleged he had bought it, to justify the sale, and so on till they found the thief. Afterwards the word was taken to mean anything which a man admitted to be his own or done by him, and in this sense it is mentioned in Fleta, lib. 1, c. 5, par 4. Cunn., Dict. h.t.
Avowable (a.) 可承認的；可明言的 Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence. -- Donne.
Avowal (n.) 公開宣布，聲明；告白，承認 An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles. -- Hume.
Avowal (n.) A statement asserting the existence or the truth of something [syn: {avowal}, {avouchment}, {affirmation}].
Avowance (n.) (Obs.) Act of avowing; avowal.
Avowance (n.) (Obs.) An upholding; defense; vindication. [Obs.]
Avowant (n.) (Law) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. -- Cowell.
Avowant (n.) [法] 供認者, 承認者, 申報者 Practice, pleading. One who makes an avowry.
Avowed (a.) 公然宣稱的；公開承認的；公然的；avow的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Openly acknowledged or declared; admitted. -- A*vow"ed*ly, adv.
Avowed (a.) Openly declared as such; "an avowed enemy"; "her professed love of everything about that country"; "McKinley was assassinated by a professed anarchist" [syn: avowed(a), professed(a)].
Avowee (n.) The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.
Avowee (n.) Eccl. law. An advocate of a church benefice.
Avower (n.) One who avows or asserts.
Avower (n.) Someone who admits or acknowledges openly and boldly.
Avower (n.) Someone who claims to speak the truth; "a bold asserter"; "a declarer of his intentions"; "affirmers of traditional doctrine"; "an asseverator of strong convictions"; "an avower of his own great intelligence" [syn: asserter, declarer, affirmer, asseverator, avower].
Avowry (n.) 【律】某種行為之聲明；承認並申明正當性答辯；普通法上動產佔有回復訴訟〔action of replevin〕中被告所作的一種答辯，即被告承認自己已佔有爭訟的動產，並陳述理由說明自己的佔有是正當、合法的 An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. [Obs.]
Let God alone be our avowry.-- Latimer.
Avowry (n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. --Blackstone.
Note: When an action of replevin is brought, the distrainer either makes avowry, that is, avours taking the distress in his own right, or the right of his wife, and states the reason if it, as for arrears of rent, damage done, or the like; or makes cognizance, that is, acknowledges the taking, but justifies in an another's right, as his bailiff or servant.
Avowry (n.) Pleading. An avowry is where the defendant in an action of replevin, avows the taking of the distress in his own right, or in right of his wife, and sets forth the cause of it, as for arrears of rent, damage done, or the like. Lawes on Pl. 35 Hamm. N. P. 464; 4 Bouv. Inst. n. 3571.
Avowry (n.) An avowry is sometimes said to be in the nature of an action or of. a declaration, and privity of estate is necessary. Co. Lit. 320 a; 1 Serg. & R. 170-1. There is no general issue upon an avowry and it cannot be traversed cumulatively. 5 Serg. & R. 377. Alienation cannot be replied to it without notice; for the tenure is deemed to exist for the purposes of an avowry till notice be given of the alienation. Ham. Parties, 131-2; Ham. N. P. 398, 426.
Avowtry (v. t.) Adultery. See Advoutry.
Avoyer (n.) A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. [Obs.]
Avulse (v. t.) 撕裂，撕脫，抽出 To pluck or pull off. -- Shenstone.
Avulse (v.) Separate by avulsion.
Avulsion (n.) 撕裂；撕掉部分；【律】土地轉位 A tearing asunder; a forcible separation.
The avulsion of two polished superficies. -- Locke.
Avulsion (n.) A fragment torn off. -- J. Barlow.
Avulsion (n.) (Law) 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. -- Wharton. Burrill.
Avulsion (n.) An abrupt change in the course of a stream that forms the boundary between two parcels of land resulting in the loss of part of the land of one landowner and a consequent increase in the land of another.
Avulsion (n.) A forcible tearing or surgical separation of one body part from another.
Avulsion (n.) Where, by the immediate and manifest power of a river or stream, the soil is taken suddenly from one man's estate and carried to another. In such case the property belongs to the first owner. An acquiescence on his part, however, will in time entitle the owner of the land to which it is attached to claim it as his own. Bract. 221; Harg. Tracts, De jure maris, &c. Toull. Dr. Civ. Fr. tom. 3, p. 106; 2. Bl. Com. 262; Schultes on Aq. Rights, 115 to 138. Avulsion differs from alluvion (q.v.) in this, that in the latter case the change of the soil is gradual and imperceptible.
Avuncular (a.) 伯父的，伯父似的 Of or pertaining to an uncle.
Avuncular (a.) Resembling a uncle in kindness or indulgence.
Avuncular (a.) Being or relating to an uncle.
Avuncular (a.) 叔伯般的；慈祥的；關懷備至的 Friendly, kind, or helpful, like the expected behaviour of an uncle.
// An avuncular, quietly spoken man.
// His avuncular image belies his steely determination.
Awaited (imp. & p. p.) of Await
Awaiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Await
Await (v. t.) 等候，期待；等待 [+v-ing]；將降臨到……身上；【廢】埋伏著等待……的到來 To watch for; to look out for.
Await (v. t.) To wait on, serve, or attend.
Await (v. t.) To wait for; to stay for; to expect. See Expect.
Await (v. t.) To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.
Await (v. i.) 等待 To watch.
Await (v. i.) To wait (on or upon).
Await (v. i.) To wait; to stay in waiting.
Await (n.) A waiting for; ambush; watch; watching; heed.
Await (v.) Look forward to the probable occurrence of; "We were expecting a visit from our relatives"; "She is looking to a promotion"; "he is waiting to be drafted" [syn: {expect}, {look}, {await}, {wait}].
Awoke (imp.) of Awake