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Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object. The highest pitch of perfection attainable in this life. Addison.

The quality of being attainable; attainability.

The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott.

The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; hence, the act of obtaining by efforts. The attainment of every desired object. Sir W. Jones.

To attain; to get act; to hit. [Obs.]

Attainder; attainture; conviction.

Attainder; disgrace.

In twain; asunder. [Obs. or Poetic] "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.

Expert; skillful; well instructed.

Succession to the goods of a stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.

To figure or variegate. [Obs.] Spenser.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

vantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton.

The quality of being available; availableness.

Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.

Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. [Obs.]

In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

Profit; advantage. [Obs.]

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

To wait on, serve, or attend. [Obs.]