[Autopsy and its derivatives are rarely used.] NWAD AUTOPTICALLY.2
The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter. Astronomically, it begins at the equinox, when the sun enters libra, and ends at the winter solstice; but in popular language autumn comprises September, October and November. NWAD AUTUMN.2
The golden pomp of autumn. NWAD AUTUMN.3
In rhetoric, a figure by which any thing is magnified too much; an increasing, or exornation, when, for amplification, a more grave and magnificent word is put for the proper word. NWAD AUXESIS.2
Helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; conferring aid or support by joint exertion, influence or use; as auxiliary troops. NWAD AUXILIAR.2
1. A helper; an assistant; a confederate in some action, enterprise or undertaking. NWAD AUXILIARY.2
2. In grammar, a verb which helps to form the modes and tenses of other verbs; as, have, be, may, can, do, must, shall and will, in English. NWAD AUXILIARY.3
1. To profit one’s self; to turn to advantage; followed by the pronouns, myself, thyself, himself, herself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves, with of before the thing used; as, let him avail himself of his license. NWAD AVAIL.2
2. To assist or profit; to effect the object, or bring to a successful issue; as, what will skill avail us against numbers. Artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment. NWAD AVAIL.3
1. Profitable; advantageous; having efficacy; as, a measure is more or less available. NWAD AVAILABLE.2
2. Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; valid; as an available plea. NWAD AVAILABLE.3
Laws are available by consent. NWAD AVAILABLE.4
1. Power or efficacy, in promoting an end in view. NWAD AVAILABLENESS.2
2. Competent power; legal force; validity; as the availableness of a title. NWAD AVAILABLENESS.3
A snow-slip; a vast body of snow sliding down a mountain. NWAD AVALANCHE.2
An inordinate desire of gaining and possessing wealth; covetousness; greediness or insatiable desire of gain. NWAD AVARICE.2
Avarice sheds a blasting influence over the finest affections and sweetest comforts of mankind. NWAD AVARICE.3
Begone; depart; a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalent to the phrase, “Get thee behind me.” NWAD AVAUNT.2
A form of devotion in the Romish Church. Their chaplets and rosaries are divided into a certain number of ave-marys and paternosters. NWAD AVEMARY.2
Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of oats. NWAD AVENACEOUS.2
In English feudal law, an officer of the king’s stable whose duty was to provide oats. NWAD AVENER.2
1. To take satisfaction for an injury by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on the wrong doer. NWAD AVENGE.2
Shall not God avenge his own elect. Luke 18:7. NWAD AVENGE.3
Avenge me of my adversary. NWAD AVENGE.4
In these examples, avenge implies that the evil inflicted on the injuring party is a satisfaction or justice done to the injured, and the party vindicated is the object of the verb. NWAD AVENGE.5
2. To take satisfaction for, by pain or punishment inflicted on the injuring party. NWAD AVENGE.6
He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deuteronomy 32:43. NWAD AVENGE.7
Here the thing for which satisfaction is taken is the object of the verb. NWAD AVENGE.8
3. To revenge. To avenge and revenge, radically, are synonymous. But modern usage inclines to make a valuable distinction in the use of these words, restricting avenge to the taking of just punishment, and revenge to the infliction of pain or evil, maliciously, in an illegal manner. NWAD AVENGE.9
4. In the passive form this verb signifies to have or receive just satisfaction, by the punishment of the offender. NWAD AVENGE.10
Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Jeremiah 5:9, 29. NWAD AVENGE.11
A mischance causing a person’s death without felony; as by drowning, or falling from a house. [See Adventure.] NWAD AVENTURE.2
1. A passage; away or opening for entrance into a place; any opening or passage by which a thing is or may be introduced. NWAD AVENUE.2
2. An alley, or walk in a garden, planted with trees, and leading to a house, gate, wood, etc., and generally terminated by some distant object. The trees may be in rows on the sides, or, according to the more modern practice, in clumps at some distance from each other. NWAD AVENUE.3
3. A wide street, as in Washington, Columbia. NWAD AVENUE.4
To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive or peremptory manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth. NWAD AVER.2
1. In commerce, a contribution to a general loss. When for the safety of a ship in distress, any destruction of property is incurred, either by cutting away the masts, throwing goods overboard, or other means, all persons who have goods on board, or property in the ship, contribute to the loss according to their average, that is, the goods of each on board. This principle, introduced into the commerce of Europe, from the Rhodian laws, and recognized by the regulations of Wisby, is now an established rule in the maritime laws of Europe; for it is most reasonable, that when one man’s property is sacrificed to save a ship, all persons whose property is saved, or in like hazard, should bear their proportion of the loss. NWAD AVERAGE.2
2. From the practice of contributing to bear losses, in proportion to each man’s property, this word has obtained the present popular sense, which is, that of a mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9 and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average, 10. NWAD AVERAGE.3
3. A small duty payable by the shippers of goods, to the master of the ship, over and above the freight, for his care of the goods. NWAD AVERAGE.4
Hence the expression in bills of lading, “paying so much freight with primage and average accustomed.” NWAD AVERAGE.5
4. In England, the breaking up of cornfields, eddish or roughings. NWAD AVERAGE.6
Upon, or on an average, is taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities. NWAD AVERAGE.7
These spars average 10 feet in length. NWAD AVERAGE.11
1. Affirmation; positive assertion; the act of averring. NWAD AVERMENT.2
2. Verification; establishment by evidence. NWAD AVERMENT.3
3. In pleading, an offer of either party to justify or prove what he alleges. In any stage of pleadings, when either party advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and concludes with these words, “and this he is ready to verify.” This is called an averment. NWAD AVERMENT.4
To root up; to scrape or tear away by the roots. NWAD AVERRUNCATE.2
A turning from with disgust or dislike; aversion; hatred; disinclination. NWAD AVERSATION.2
It is nearly superseded by aversion. NWAD AVERSATION.3
1. Disliking; unwilling; having a repugnance of mind. NWAD AVERSE.2
Averse alike to flatter or offend. NWAD AVERSE.3
2. Unfavorable; indisposed; malign. NWAD AVERSE.4
And Pallas now averse refused her aid. NWAD AVERSE.5
This word and its derivatives ought to be followed by to, and never by from. This word includes the idea of from; but the literal meaning being lost, the affection of the mind signified by the word, is exerted towards the object of dislike, and like its kindred terms, hatred, dislike, contrary, repugnant, etc., should be followed by to. Indeed it is absurd to speak of an affection of the mind exerted from an object. Averse expresses a less degree of opposition in the mind, than detesting and abhorring. NWAD AVERSE.6
Milton once uses averse in its literal sense, with from, but it is not according to the English idiom. NWAD AVERSE.7
1. Opposition or repugnance of mind; dislike; disinclination; reluctance; hatred. Usually this word expresses moderate hatred, or opposition of mind, not amounting to abhorrence or detestation. It ought generally to be followed by to before the object. [See Averse.] Sometimes it admits of for. NWAD AVERSION.2
A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection. NWAD AVERSION.3
2. Opposition or contrariety of nature; applied to inanimate substances. NWAD AVERSION.4
Magnesia, notwithstanding this aversion to solution, forms a kind of paste with water. NWAD AVERSION.5
3. The cause of dislike. NWAD AVERSION.6
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. NWAD AVERSION.7
1. To turn from; to turn off or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object. NWAD AVERT.2
2. To keep off, divert or prevent; as, to avert an approaching calamity. NWAD AVERT.3
3. To cause to dislike. But this sense seems to be improper, except when heart or some equivalent word is used; as, to avert the heart or affections, which may signify to alienate the affections. NWAD AVERT.4
A bird cage; an inclosure for keeping birds confined. NWAD AVIARY.2
1. Greediness; strong appetite; applied to the senses: NWAD AVIDITY.2
2. Eagerness; intenseness of desire; applied to the mind. NWAD AVIDITY.3
Avignon-berry, the fruit of a species of lycium, so called from the city, Avignon, in France. The berry is less than a pea, of a yellowish green color, and bitter astringent taste; used by dyers and painters for staining yellow. NWAD AVIGATO.2
To call off, or away. [Not used.] NWAD AVOCATE.2
1. The act of calling aside, or diverting from some employment; as an avocation from sin or from business. NWAD AVOCATION.2
2. The business which calls aside. The word is generally used for the smaller affairs of life, or occasional calls which summon a person to leave his ordinary or principal business. The use of this word for vocation is very improper. NWAD AVOCATION.3
1. To shun; to keep at a distance from; that is, literally, to go or be wide from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. NWAD AVOID.2
2. To shift off, or clear off; as, to avoid expense. NWAD AVOID.3
3. To quit; to evacuate; to shun by leaving; as, to avoid the house. NWAD AVOID.4
4. To escape; as, to avoid danger. NWAD AVOID.5
5. To emit or throw out; as, to avoid excretions. For this, void is now generally used. NWAD AVOID.6
6. To make void; to annul or vacate. NWAD AVOID.7
The grant cannot be avoided without injustice to the grantee. NWAD AVOID.8
7. In pleading, to set up some new matter or distinction, which shall avoid, that is, defeat or evade the allegation of the other party. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant’s plea, or confess it, and avoid it by starting new matter. NWAD AVOID.9
David avoided out of his presence. 1 Samuel 18:11. [Improper.] NWAD AVOID.11
2. To become void, vacant or empty. NWAD AVOID.12
A benefice avoids by common law. NWAD AVOID.13
1. That may be avoided, left at a distance, shunned or escaped. NWAD AVOIDABLE.2
2. That may be vacated; liable to be annulled. NWAD AVOIDABLE.3
1. The act of avoiding, or shunning. NWAD AVOIDANCE.2
2. The act of vacating, or the state of being vacant. It is appropriately used for the state of a benefice becoming void, by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. NWAD AVOIDANCE.3
3. The act of annulling. NWAD AVOIDANCE.4
4. The course by which any thing is carried off. NWAD AVOIDANCE.5
1. One who avoids, shuns or escapes. NWAD AVOIDER.2
2. The person who carries any thing away; the vessel in which things are carried away. NWAD AVOIDER.3
A weight, of which a pound contains 16 ounces. Its proportion to a pound Troy is as 17 to 14. this is the weight for the larger and coarser commodities, as hay, iron, cheese, groceries, etc. NWAD AVOIRDUPOIS.2
The act of flying away; flight; escape. [Little used.] NWAD AVOLATION.2
1. To affirm; to declare or assert with positiveness. NWAD AVOUCH.2
2. To produce or call in; to affirm in favor of, maintain or support. NWAD AVOUCH.3
Such antiquities could be avouched for the Irish. NWAD AVOUCH.4
3. To maintain, vindicate or justify. NWAD AVOUCH.5
1. To declare openly, with a view to justify, maintain or defend; or simply to own, acknowledge or confess frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. NWAD AVOW.2
2. In law, to acknowledge and justify; as when the distrainer of goods defends in an action of replevin, and avows the taking, but insists that such taking was legal. NWAD AVOW.3
A pulling or tearing asunder; a rending or violent separation. NWAD AVULSION.2