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One who is self-taught; an automath.

Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy. "Avid of gold, yet greedier of renown." Southey.

Avid.

Eagerly; greedily.

Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. His books were received and read with avidity. Milward.

To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

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.

One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

Unavoidable; inevitable.

The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

One who backslides.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

Destructive of bacteria.

Same as Germicide.

Resembling bacteria; as, bacteroid particles.

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

Resembling an acorn; -- applied to a group of barnacles having shells shaped like acorns. See Acornshell, and Barnacle.

Like a fish of the genus Balistes; of the family Balistidæ. See Filefish.