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To sell by auction; to auction. Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away. Cowper.

The thing added by way of enlargement.

One who rules with undisputed sway in any company or relation; a despot. The autocrat of the breakfast table. Holmes.

vehicle or mechanism; esp., a self-propelled vehicle suitable for use on a street or roadway. Automobiles are usually propelled by internal combustion engines (using volatile inflammable liquids, as gasoline or petrol, alcohol, naphtha, etc.), steam engines, or electric motors. The power of the driving motor varies fr…

By way of help. Harris.

To depart; to move away. [Obs.] Coverdale.

To pull away. [Obs.] Yet are not these parts avelled. Sir T. Browne.

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 avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

ind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips.

Turned away or backward. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted "To avert his ire." Milton. When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon.…

Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic] One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.

A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. What need a man forestall his date of grief. And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.…

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

n uncle. In these rare instances, the law of pedigree, whether direct or avuncular, gives way. I. Taylor.

ke the dormant faculties. I was soon awaked from this disagreeable reverie. Goldsmith. It way awake my bounty further. Shak. No sunny gleam awakes the trees. Keble.