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A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

desire of gain; greediness after wealth; covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

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

A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable 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 pil…

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

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

ion 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.

Evidence; declaration. [Obs.] The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. Shak.

To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. Milton.

distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone.

f another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner. Wharton. Burrill.

t to an imperative: Go or come ~; begone; take ~. And the Lord said . . . Away, get thee down. Exod. xix. 24.

Sown during the last years of a tenancy, but not ripe until after its expiration; -- said of crops. Wharton.

Dread; great fear mingled with respect. [Obs. or Obsolescent] His frown was full of terror, and his voice Shook the delinquent with such fits of awe. Cowper.

t course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry. "Your crown's awry." Shak. Blows them transverse, ten thousand leagues awry. Into the devious air. Milton.

A borosilicate of alumina, iron, and lime, commonly found in glassy, brown crystals with acute edges.

line of any design. Anticlinal axis (Geol.), a line or ridge from which the strata slope downward on the two opposite sides. -- Synclinal axis, a line from which the strata slope upward in opposite directions, so as to form a valley. -- Axis cylinder (Anat.), the neuraxis or essential, central substance of a nerve fi…

In Spain and Spanish America, a corporation or body of magistrates in cities and towns, corresponding to mayor and aldermen.

p , v , f , w and m , letters representing sounds having a close organic affinity to its own sound; as in Eng. bursar and purser; Eng. bear and Lat. pear; Eng. silver and Ger. silber; Lat. cubitum and It. gomito; Eng. seven, Anglo-Saxon seofon, Ger. sieben, Lat. septem, Gr.ptan. The form of letter B is Roman, from Gre…