Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages). Noah Webster

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       2. A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria.

       Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour !

       Byron.

       Ø AÏve¶na (?), n. [L.] (Bot.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses.

       Av·eÏna¶ceous (?), a. [L. avenaceus, fr. avena oats.] Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.

       Av¶eÏnage (?), n. [F. avenage, fr. L. avena oats.] (Old Law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.

       Jacob.

       Av¶eÏner (?), n. [OF. avenier, fr. aveine, avaine, avoine, oats, F. avoine, L. avena.] (Feud. Law) An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses. [Obs.]

       AÏvenge¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Avenged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Avenging (?).] [OF. avengier; L. ad + vindicare to lay claim to, to avenge, revenge. See Vengeance.] 1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing 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 seen.

       Macaulay.

       2. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. [Obs.]

       Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies.

       Bp. Hall.

       Syn. - To Avenge, Revenge. To avenge is to inflict punishment upon evil doers in behalf of ourselves, or others for whom we act; as, to avenge one's wrongs; to avenge the injuries of the suffering and innocent. It is to inflict pain for the sake of vindication, or retributive justice. To revenge is to inflict pain or injury for the indulgence of resentful and malicious feelings. The former may at times be a duty; the latter is one of the worst exhibitions of human character.

       I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another.

       C. J. Smith.

       AÏvenge¶, v. i. To take vengeance.

       Levit. xix. 18.

       AÏvenge¶, n. Vengeance; revenge. [Obs.]

       Spenser.

       AÏvenge¶ance (?), n. Vengeance. [Obs.]

       AÏvenge¶ful (?), a. Vengeful. [Obs.]

       Spenser.

       AÏvenge¶ment (?), n. The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.]

       Milton.

       AÏven¶ger (?), n. 1. One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood.

       2. One who takes vengeance. [Obs.]

       Milton.

      AÏven¶gerÏess, n. A female avenger. [Obs.]

       Spenser.

       AÏve¶niÏous (?), a. [Pref. aÏ + L. vena a vein.] (Bot.) Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants.

       Av¶eÏnor (?), n. See Avener. [Obs.]

       Av¶ens (?), n. [OF. avence.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.

       Av¶enÏtail (?), n. [OF. esventail. Cf. Ventail.] The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.

       Av¶enÏtine (?), a. Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.

       Bryant.

       Av¶enÏtine, n. A post of security or defense. [Poetic]

       Into the castle's tower,

       The only Aventine that now is left him.

       Beau. & Fl.

       AÏven¶tre (?), v. t. To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. [Obs.]

       Spenser.

       AÏven¶ture (?; 135), n. [See Adventure, n.] 1. Accident; chance; adventure. [Obs.]

       Chaucer.

       2. (Old Law) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.

       AÏven¶tuÏrine (?), n. [F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino.] 1. A kind of glass, containing goldÐcolored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.

       2. (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.

       ÷ feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

       Av¶eÏnue (?), n. [F. avenue, fr. avenir to come to, L. advenire. See Advene.] 1. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. ½The avenues leading to the city by land.¸

       Macaulay.

       On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry.

       Milman.

       2. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

       An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts.

       W. Black.

       3. A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.

       A¶ver (?), n. [OF. aver domestic animal, whence LL. averia, pl. cattle. See Habit, and cf. Average.] A work horse, or working ox. [Obs. or Dial. Eng.]

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      AÏver¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Averred (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Averring.] [F. av‚rer, LL. adverare, averare; L. ad + versus true. See Verity.] 1. To assert, or prove, the truth of. [Obs.]

       2. (Law) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.

       3. To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.

       It is sufficient that the very fact hath its foundation in truth, as I do seriously aver is the case.

       Fielding.

       Then all averred I had killed the bird.

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