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An ave Maria. He repeated Aves and Credos. Macaulay.

yer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church. To number Ave Maries on his beads. Shak.

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

In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross.

A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob.

A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form.

An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses. [Obs.]

shing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before se…

Vengeance. [Obs.]

Vengeful. [Obs.] Spenser.

The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] Milton.

One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.

A female avenger. [Obs.] Spenser.

Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.

See Avener. [Obs.]

A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood. Bryant.