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Birds which are able to run about and obtain their own food as soon as hatched.

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction. The avails of their own industry. Stoddard.

To descend; to fall; to dismount. [Obs.] And from their sweaty courses did avale. Spenser.

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

A reverential salutation. Their loud applause and aves vehement. Shak.

idable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. -- Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly wer…

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet.

The object of dislike or repugnance. Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. Pope.

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.

orpor; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

nes intersecting each other, to which points are referred for the purpose of determining their relative position: they are either rectangular or oblique. -- Axes of coördinates in space, the three straight lines in which the coördinate planes intersect each other. -- Axis of a balance, that line about which it turns.…

A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found in Madagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its long fingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.

of cattle from Ayrshire, Scotland. Ayrshires are notable for the quantity and quality of their milk.

An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge. [The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. Milton.

The application of a knowledge of bacteria for their detection and identification, as in the examination of polluted water.

son; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman. "Tax gatherers, recognized by their official badges. " Prescott.

Custody; keeping. [Obs.] Silly Faunus now within their bail. Spenser.

To harden by cold. The earth . . . is baked with frost. Shak. They bake their sides upon the cold, hard stone. Spenser.

order and balance of the country were destroyed. Buckle. English workmen completely lose their balance. J. S. Mill.

e or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style. This gives to their syntax a peculiar character of simplicity and baldness. W. D. Whitney.