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

d run to meet what he would most avoid Milton. He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay.

Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]

rately; to admit; to confess; to sanction. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God. Deut. xxvi. 17.

edge 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.

The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking. Cowell.

An advocate; a patron; a patron saint. [Obs.] Let God alone be our avowry. Latimer.

To be in store for; to be ready or in waiting for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good. O Eve, some farther change awaits us night. Milton.

e dead; to awake 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.

From a place; hence. The sound is going away. Shak. Have me away, for I am sore wounded. 2 Chron. xxxv. 23.

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

g, or not commonly used; clumsy; sinister; as, the awk end of a rod (the but end). [Obs.] Golding.

ed; embarrassing. A long and awkward process. Macaulay. An awkward affair is one that has gone wrong, and is difficult to adjust. C. J. Smith.

ely. Or by her charms Draws him awry, enslaved. Milton. Nothing more awry from the law of God and nature than that a woman should give laws to men. Milton.

ar 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 Greek B (Beta), of Semitic origin. The small b was formed by gradual change from the capital B.

A hound too noisy on finding a good scent.

The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

several species of Ranunculus, and the cornflower (Centaures cyanus) and globe amaranth (Gomphrena).

when attacked.). [Colloq.] -- To see the back of, to get rid of. -- To turn the back, to go away; to flee. -- To turn the back on one, to forsake or neglect him.

or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel.