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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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A boaster. [Obs.] Chaucer.

AVENTURE n. 2 definitions

Accident; chance; adventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.

AVERAGE n. 14 definitions

Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

Advice; opinion; deliberation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

AVISE v. 3 definitions

To look at; to view; to think of. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Advisedly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Vision. [Obs.] Chaucer.

AVOIDABLE a. 2 definitions

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

AVOIDANCE n. 5 definitions

ivation, 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.

Adultery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

AVOW v. 5 definitions

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.

AVULSION n. 3 definitions

om the estate of one man to that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a sudden change in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of one man is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property in the part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner. Wharton. Burrill.…

AWAIT v. 8 definitions

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

Turned away; away. [Obs.] Chaucer.

AWRY adv. 2 definitions

f truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely. 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.

AXIOMATIC; AXIOMATICAL a.

Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

AYEN; AYEIN; AYEINS adv.

Again; back against. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Backward. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Any of a large class of compounds characterized by a five- membered ring which contains an atom of nitrogen and at least one other noncarbon atom (nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur). The prefixes furo-, thio, and pyrro-are used to distinguish three subclasses of azoles, which may be regarded as derived respectively from furfur…

AZOTINE; AZOTIN n. 2 definitions

An explosive consisting of sodium nitrate, charcoal, sulphur, and petroleum.