English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Avarous
(a.)
Avaricious.
Avast
(a.)
Cease; stop; stay.
Avatar
(n.)
The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a
man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of
Vishnu.
Avatar
(n.)
Incarnation; manifestation as an object of worship or
admiration.
Avaunce
(v. t. & i.)
To advance; to profit.
Avaunt
(interj.)
Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence,
equivalent to the phrase "Get thee gone."
Avaunt
(v. t. & i.)
To advance; to move forward; to elevate.
Avaunt
(v. t. & i.)
To depart; to move away.
Avaunt
(v. t. & i.)
To vaunt; to boast.
Avaunt
(n.)
A vaunt; to boast.
Avauntour
(n.)
A boaster.
Ave
(n.)
A reverential salutation.
Ave
(n.)
An ave Maria.
Alt. of Ave Mary
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.
A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of
God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church.
Avel
(v. t.)
To pull away.
Avellane
(a.)
In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane
cross.
Avena
(n.)
A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa);
the oat grasses.
Avenaceous
(a.)
Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.