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

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       AÏvoid¶aÏble (?), a. 1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable.

       The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage.

       Hale.

       2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped.

       AÏvoid¶ance (?), n. 1. The act of annulling; annulment.

       2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; Ð specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent.

       Wolsey, … on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him.

       Fuller.

       3. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal.

       4. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. ½The avoidance of pain.¸

       Beattie.

       5. The courts by which anything is carried off.

       Avoidances and drainings of water.

       Bacon.

       AÏvoid¶er (?), n. 1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away.

       Johnson.

       2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

       AÏvoid¶less, a. Unavoidable; inevitable.

       Av·oirÏduÏpois¶ (?), n. & a. [OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., and Poise, n.] 1. Goods sold by weight. [Obs.]

       2. Avoirdupois weight.

       3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois.ÿ[Colloq.]

       ÷ weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.

       µ The standard ~ pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 620 Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31Ð144 pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240 pounds (sometimes called a long ton).

       AÏvoke¶ (?), v. t. [Cf. Avocate.] To call from or back again. [Obs.]

       Bp. Burnet.

       Av¶oÏlate (?), v. i. [L. avolare; a (ab) + volare to fly.] To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

       Av·oÏla¶tion (?), n. [LL. avolatio.] The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

       Av¶oÏset (?), n. Same as Avocet.

       AÏvouch¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Avouched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Avouching.] [OF. avochier, LL. advocare to recognize the existence of a thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. Cf. Avow to declare, Advocate, and see Vouch, v. t.] 1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. [Obs.]

       They avouch many successions of authorities.

       Coke.

       2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.

       We might be disposed to question its authencity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence.

       Milman.

       3. To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.

       If this which he avouches does appear.

       Shak.

       Such antiquities could have been avouched for the Irish.

       Spenser.

       4. To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.

       Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God.

       Deut. xxvi. 17.

       AÏvouch¶ (?), n. Evidence; declaration. [Obs.]

       The sensible and true avouch

       Of mine own eyes.

       Shak.

       AÏvouch¶aÏble (?), a. Capable of being avouched.

       AÏvouch¶er (?), n. One who avouches.

       AÏvouch¶ment (?), n. The act of avouching; positive declaration. [Obs.]

       Milton.

       AÏvou¶trer (?), n. See Advoutrer. [Obs.]

       AÏvou¶trie (?), n. [OF.] Adultery. [Obs.]

       Chaucer.

       AÏvow¶ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Avowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Avowing.] [F. avouver, fr. L. advocare to call to (whence the meanings, to call upon as superior; recognize as lord, own, confess); ad + vocare to call. See Advocate, Avouch.] 1. To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes.

       Which I to be the of Israel's God

       Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test.

       Milton.

       2. (Law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry.

       Blackstone.

       Syn. - To acknowledge; own; confess. See Confess.

       AÏvow¶, n, [Cf. F. aveu.] Avowal. [Obs.]

       Dryden.

       AÏvow¶, v. t. & i. [OF. avouer, fr. LL. votare to vow, fr. L. votun. See Vote, n.] To bind, or to devote, by a vow. [Obs.]

       Wyclif.

       AÏvow¶, n. A vow or determination. [Archaic]

       AÏvow¶aÏble (?), a. Capable of being avowed, or openly acknowledged, with confidence.

       Donne.

       AÏvow¶al (?), n. An open declaration; frank acknowledgment; as, an avowal of such principles.

       Hume.

       AÏvow¶ance (?), n. 1. Act of avowing; avowal.

       2. Upholding; defense; vindication. [Obs.]

       Can my avowance of kingÐmurdering be collected from anything here written by me?

       Fuller.

       AÏvow¶ant (?), n. (Law) The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

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