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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.

; reluctant. Averse alike to flatter, or offend. Pope. Men who were averse to the life of camps. Macaulay. Pass by securely as men averse from war. Micah ii. 8.

ake; to awaken. Where morning's earliest ray . . . awake her. Tennyson. And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us; we perish. Matt. viii. 25.

To the place from which one came; to the place or person from which something is taken or derived; as, to go back for something left behind; to go back to one's native place; to put a book back after reading it.

A native of Bactria. Bactrian camel, the two-humped camel.

One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

head of the Babists. Baha in 1863 declared himself the supreme prophet of the sect, and became its recognized head. There are upwards of 20,000 Bahais in the United States.

rom a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came to be banished from the Low Countries in Scotland. Blair.

that branded a foreign term in any of their writers with the odious name of barbarism. G. Campbell.

Contrary to the pure idioms of a language. A barbarous expression G. Campbell.

A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

Barter. [Obs.] Camden.

sembling a jacket with a short skirt; -- probably so called because this fashion of dress came from the Basques.

To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.

A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

Originally, cambric or lawn of fine linen; now applied also to cloth of similar texture made of cotton.

formerly, one who paid for nothing but what he called for, answering nearly to a sizar at Cambridge. Wright.

A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. Sick bay, in vessels of war, that part of a deck appropriated to the use of the sick. Totten.

ive light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine. That beacons the darkness of heaven. Campbell.

ew character. The Lord God . . . breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Gen. ii. 7. That error now which is become my crime. Milton.