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Same as Kava. Johnston.

Same as Amadavat.

advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. O, what avails me now that honor high ! Milton.

The quality of being available; availableness.

Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.] Laws human are available by consent. Hooker.

Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. [Obs.]

In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.

Profit; advantage. [Obs.]

A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.

To descend; to fall; to dismount. [Obs.] And from their sweaty courses did avale. Spenser.

The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van.

A person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.

The van or advanced body of an army. See Vanguard.

covetousness; cupidity. To desire money for its own sake, and in order to hoard it up, is avarice. Beattie.

Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.

Avaricious. [Obs.]

Cease; stop; stay. "Avast heaving." Totten.

The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.

To advance; to profit. Chaucer.

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