Helen Fenton

Aventine: Definition and part of speech

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Aventine

  1. n. A post of security or defense.
  2. a. Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aventure: Definition and part of speech

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Aventure

  1. n. A mischance causing a person’s death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
  2. n. Accident; chance; adventure.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aventurine: Definition and part of speech

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Aventurine

  1. n. A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
  2. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Avenue: Definition and part of speech

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Avenue

  1. n. A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
  2. 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.
  3. n. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Aver: Definition and part of speech

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Aver

  1. n. A work horse, or working ox.
  2. v. t. To assert, or prove, the truth of.
  3. v. t. To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Average: Definition and part of speech

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Average

  1. a. According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
  2. n. That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc.
  3. n. A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
  4. n. Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
  5. n. A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
  6. n. The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
  7. 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.
  8. n. Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
  9. n. In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
  10. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.