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

ich is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black.

Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

r 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. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

s earthly employments avocations. Fuller. By the secular cares and avocations which accompany marriage the clergy have been furnished with skill in common life. Atterbury.

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 courts by which anything is carried off. Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon.

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

To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.] They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke.

holding; defense; vindication. [Obs.] Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me Fuller.

Worshipful; reverential; law-abiding. [Obs.] Thrust from the company of awful men. Shak.

The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or any similar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.

A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

Belonging to the axis of the body; as, the axial skeleton; or to the axis of any appendage or organ; as, the axial bones. Axial line (Magnetism), the line taken by the magnetic force in passing from one pole of a horseshoe magnet to the other. Faraday.

Situated in the axis of anything; as an embryo which lies in the axis of a seed. Gray.

s, the straight line joining the vertex and the center of the base; the axis of a circle, any straight line passing through the center.

ted between the meridian of the place and a vertical circle passing through the center of any object; as, the azimuth of a star; the azimuth or bearing of a line surveying.

ing two hydrocarbon radicals, as in azobenzene, azobenzoic, etc. These compounds furnish many artificial dyes. See Diazo-.

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was no animal life on the globe; as, the azoic. rocks. Azoic age (Geol.), the age preceding the existence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age…

Any of a large class of compounds characterized by a five- membered ring which contains an atom of nitrogen and at least one other noncarbon atom (nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur). The prefixes furo-, thio, and pyrro-are used to distinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfur…