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70 words match “AVID”

AVID a.
Longing eagerly for; eager; greedy. "Avid of gold, yet greedier of renown." Southey.
AVIDIOUS a.
Avid.
AVIDIOUSLY adv.
Eagerly; greedily.
AVIDITY n.
Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity. His books were received and read with avidity. Milward.
DAVIDIC a.
Of or pertaining to David, the king and psalmist of Israel, or to his family.
DRAVIDA n.
A race Hindostan, believed to be the original people who occupied the land before the Hindoo or Aryan invasion.
DRAVIDIAN a.
Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important.
GRAVID a.
Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety. " His gravid associate." Sir T. Herbert.
GRAVIDATED a.
Made pregnant; big. [Obs.] Barrow.
GRAVIDATION n.
Gravidity. [Obs.]
GRAVIDITY n.
The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. [R.]
IMPAVID a.
Fearless. -- Im*pav"id*ly, adv.
INGRAVIDATE v.
To impregnate. [Obs.] Fuller.
INGRAVIDATION n.
The state of being pregnant or impregnated. [Obs.]
PAVID a.
Timid; fearful. [R.] Thackeray.
PAVIDITY n.
Timidity. [R.]
SAXICAVID a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to the saxicavas. -- n.
AMAZE v.
th her wit." Goldsmith. And all the people were amazed, and said, Is not this the son of David Matt. xii. 23.
AVOID v.
To retire; to withdraw. [Obs.] David avoided out of his presence. 1 Sam. xviii. 11.
BELONG v.
desert place belonging to . . . Bethsaids. Luke ix. 10. The mighty men which belonged to David. 1 Kings i. 8.
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