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lace where an action is laid. The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. Blackstone.

o a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. "The avenues leading to the city by land." Macaulay. On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman.

Interposition. [Obs.] Sir H. Blount.

or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. Gray.

A sudden or unexpected coming or stepping on. [Obs.]

Not furnished with a revenue. [R.] Milton.

g actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts. [Cant] The accounts of revenues supplied . . . were not real receipts: not, in financial language, "actuals," but only Egyptian budget estimates. Fortnightly Review.

Of or pertaining to ambulacra; avenuelike; as, the ambulacral ossicles, plates, spines, and suckers of echinoderms.

ality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the amount of a bill; the amount of this year's revenue.

A way, passage, or avenue by which a place or buildings can be approached; an access. Macaulay.

An arched or covered passageway or avenue.

In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.

tacle or receiver. [Obs.] It [a little brook] paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.…

Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

Merely; only. R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not in revenue. Shak.

A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

ical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.

aining a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.

A public walk or street occupying the site of demolished fortifications. Hence: A broad avenue in or around a city.

ensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.