English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Aventre
(v. t.)
To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.
Aventure
(n.)
Accident; chance; adventure.
Aventure
(n.)
A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as
by drowning, or falling into the fire.
Aventurine
(n.)
A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It
was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure)
dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.
Aventurine
(n.)
A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout
with scales of yellow mica.
Avenue
(n.)
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.
Avenue
(n.)
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withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each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.
Avenue
(n.)
A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
Aver
(n.)
A work horse, or working ox.
Aver
(v. t.)
To assert, or prove, the truth of.
Aver
(v. t.)
To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or
justify. See Averment.
Aver
(v. t.)
To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive
manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
Average
(v. t.)
To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are
unequal; to reduce to a mean.
Average
(a.)
According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be
made good by average contribution.
Average
(a.)
Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a
mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary;
usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the
average Englishman; beings of the average stamp.
Average
(n.)
In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several
kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
Average
(n.)
Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a
comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity,
quality, rate, etc.
Average
(n.)
A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of
unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5
dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10.
Average
(n.)
The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or
expense among all interested.
Average
(v. t.)
To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.