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Any thing or being regarded as having the power of spontaneous motion or action. Huxley. So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Boyle. These living automata, human bodies. Boyle.

Fear of one's self; fear of being egotistical. [R.] Hare.

The quality of being available; availableness.

Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate. Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable. Carlyle. H…

Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.

Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.

usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.

The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

Capable of being averted; preventable.

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

The act of becoming vacant, 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. Ful…

Capable of being avouched.

Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence. Donne.

From a state or condition of being; out of existence. Be near me when I fade away. Tennyson.

The quality of being awesome.

The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence. [Obs.] Producing in us reverence and awfulness. Jer. Taylor.

verse; untoward. [Obs.] "Awkward casualties." "Awkward wind." Shak. O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall.

The quality of being awless.

ence of animal life, or anterior to the paleozoic tome. Azoic is also used as a noun, age being understood. See Archæan, and Eozoic.

The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.