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ecies of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry.

Watchful; circumspect. [Obs.] With sharp, aviseful eye. Spenser.

To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [Obs.] Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. Bacon.

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

Aside; off; in another direction. The axis of rotation is inclined away from the sun. Lockyer.

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

e with fear and reverence; to inspire with awe; to control by inspiring dread. That same eye whose bend doth awe the world. Shak. His solemn and pathetic exhortation awed and melted the bystanders. Macaulay.

, hewing timber, etc. It is wielded by a wooden helve or handle, so fixed in a socket or eye as to be in the same plane with the blade. The broadax, or carpenter's ax, is an ax for hewing timber, made heavier than the chopping ax, and with a broader and thinner blade and a shorter handle.

s of the Ionic capital (Arch.), a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute. -- Neutral axis (Mech.), the line of demarcation between the horizontal elastic forces of tension and compression, exerted by the fibers in any cross section of a girder. -- Optic axis of a crystal, the directi…

Ah! alas! "Ay me! I fondly dream `Had ye been there.'" Milton.

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

The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color. "In robes of azure." Wordsworth.

t Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

Any one of several species of Acacia, esp. A. Arabica, which yelds a gum used as a substitute for true gum arabic.

A small image of an infant; a doll. Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes. Heywood.

A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [Obs.]

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables. Backgammon board , a board for playing backgammon, often made i…

In rounders, the player who stands immediately behind the striking base.