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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.]

At the bottom; lowest. Cowell.

Labor with pain; severe toil or exertion. As everything of price, so this doth require travail. Hooker.

Causing travail; laborious. [Obs.] Wyclif. -- Trav"ail*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Wyclif.

hole world, and lose himself, or be cast away Luke ix. 25. To advantage one's self of, to avail one's self of. [Obs.]

Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning). We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited. Macaulay.

, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequently accrued which could not have been availed of to prevent such judgment. Wharton.

ucing or giving birth; as, a tree in full bearing; a tree past bearing. [His mother] in travail of his bearing. R. of Gloucester.

To serve; to assist; to profit; to avail. Milton.

To profit; to advantage; to avail; -- generally followed by it; as, what boots it What booteth it to others that we wish them well, and do nothing for them Hooker. What subdued To change like this a mind so far imbued With scorn of man, it little boots to know. Byron. What boots to us your victories Southey.…

Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success. Chaucer. I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak. -- Boot"less*ly, adv. -- Boot"less*ness, n.

Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.

by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise. Nor aught availed him now To have built in heaven high towers. Milton.

e laws or institutions which they believed contrary to the kingdom of Christ, but who now avail themselves of political rights.

An abbreviation for Confédération Générale du Travail (the French syndicalist labor union).