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To sell by auction; to auction. Estates . . . advertised and auctioneered away. Cowper.

To depart; to move away. [Obs.] Coverdale.

To pull away. [Obs.] Yet are not these parts avelled. Sir T. Browne.

Turned away or backward. [Obs.] The tracks averse a lying notice gave, And led the searcher backward from the cave. Dryden.

A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. Bp. Atterbury.

To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted "To avert his ire." Milton. When atheists and profane persons do hear of so many discordant and contrary opinions in religion, it doth avert them from the church. Bacon.…

Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended; unpropitious. Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.

To call off or away; to withdraw; to transfer to another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic] One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.

A calling away; a diversion. [Obs. or Archaic] Impulses to duty, and powerful avocations from sin. South.

To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company 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.…

The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

n 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.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

er sponge (Spongilla), common in the north of Europe, the powder of which is used to take away the livid marks of bruises.

hich political rights and privileges, as those of a prince, city, or district, were taken away.

To bandy; to drive away. [Obs.]

To waste by little and little; to fritter away. [Obs.]

To drive away; to compel to depart; to dispel. "Banish all offense." Shak.

or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture. "A bare treasury." Dryden.