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healthy tissue, as from a neighboring part, to supply the deficiency caused by disease or wounds.

Deification of one's self; self-worship. [R.]

One given to self-worship. [R.]

to the autumn of the duke's favor. Fuller. Life's autumn past, I stand on winter's verge. Wordsworth.

A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word; amplification; hyperbole.

ill not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease. "What signs avail " Milton. Words avail very little with me, young man. Sir W. Scott.

To bring low; to abase. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.

Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or admiration.

Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."

A work horse, or working ox. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.

religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon. Till ardent prayer averts the public woe. Prior.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

A woman aviator.

fessions, among the men, no more favorable to these studies than the common avocations of women. Richardson. In a few hours, above thirty thousand men left his standard, and returned to their ordinary avocations. Macaulay. An irregularity and instability of purpose, which makes them choose the wandering avocations of a…

ompany 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.

e 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. Fuller.

Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. [Colloq.] Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.

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

sublime; an undefined sense of the dreadful and the sublime; reverential fear, or solemn wonder; profound reverence. There is an awe in mortals' joy, A deep mysterious fear. Keble. To tame the pride of that power which held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, m…