English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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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
(a.)
According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be
made good by average contribution.
Average
(v. t.)
To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are
unequal; to reduce to a mean.
Average
(v. t.)
To divide among a number, according to a given
proportion; as, to average a loss.
Average
(v. t.)
To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
Average
(v. i.)
To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity;
to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners
will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in
length.
Averaged
(imp. & p. p.)
of Average
Averaging
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Average
Avercorn
(n.)
A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious
houses by their tenants or farmers.
Averment
(v. t.)
The act of averring, or that which is averred;
affirmation; positive assertion.
Averment
(v. t.)
Verification; establishment by evidence.
Averment
(v. t.)
A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer
to justify or prove what is alleged.
Avernal
(a.)
Alt. of Avernian
Avernian
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in
Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied
were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented
by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.
Averpenny
(n.)
Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of
average.
Averred
(imp. & p. p.)
of Aver
Averring
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Aver
Averroism
(n.)
The tenets of the Averroists.
Averroist
(n.)
One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who appeared
in Italy before the restoration of learning; so denominated from
Averroes, or Averrhoes, a celebrated Arabian philosopher. He held the
doctrine of monopsychism.
Averruncate
(v. t.)
To avert; to ward off.