Vocabulary : Avenor to Average

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 ;; The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.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.; ordi

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