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

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

Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4.

A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos.]

The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage.

A sweet wine. See Calcavella.

See Clevis.

See Clavate.

Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [Obs.]

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill.

A horse of a favel or dun color. To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n.

A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ.

A gable. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [Obs.]

A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell.

Same as Gavelock.

A spear or dart. [R. & Obs.]

kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder.

A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus.