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Averment: Definition and part of speech

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Averment

  1. v. t. A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
  2. v. t. The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion.
  3. v. t. Verification; establishment by evidence.

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.

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.