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Average

AV'ERAGE, noun

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.

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.

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.

Hence the expression in bills of lading, 'paying so much freight with primage and average accustomed.'

4. In England, the breaking up of cornfields, eddish or roughings.

Upon, or on an average is taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities.

AV'ERAGE, adjective Medial; containing a mean proportion.

AV'ERAGE, verb transitive To find the mean of unequal sums or quantities; to reduce to a medium; to divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.

AV'ERAGE, verb intransitive To form a mean or medial sum or quantity; as, the losses of the owners will average 25 dollars each.

These spars average 10 feet in length.

Averaged

AV'ERAGED, participle passive Reduced or formed into a mean proportion, or into shares proportioned to each man's property.

Averaging

AV'ERAGING, participle present tense Forming a mean proportion out of unequal sums or quantities, or reducing to just shares according to each man's property.

Averment

AVER'MENT, noun [See Aver.]

1. Affirmation; positive assertion; the act of averring.

2. Verification; establishment by evidence.

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

Avernat

AVER'NAT, noun A sort of grape.

Avernian

AVER'NIAN, adjective Pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania in Italy, famous for its poisonous qualities, which the poets represent as so malignant, as to kill fowls flying over. Hence, as authors tell us, its name, without birds.

Averpenny

AV'ERPENNY, noun Money paid towards the kings carriages by land, instead of service by the beasts in kind.

Averred

AVER'RED, participle passive Affirmed; laid with an averment.

Averring

AVER'RING, participle present tense Affirming; declaring positively; offering to justify or verify.

Averroist

AVERROIST, noun One of a sect of peripatetic philosophers, who were so demoninated from Averroes, a celebrated Arabian author. They held the soul to be mortal, though they pretended to submit to the christian theology.

Averruncate

AVERRUNC'ATE, verb intransitive [Latin averrunco, of ab and erunco, from runco, to weed, or rake away.]

To root up; to scrape or tear away by the roots.

Averruncation

AVERRUNCA'TION, noun The act of tearing up or raking away by the roots.

Aversation

AVERSA'TION, noun [Latin aversor. See Avert.]

A turning from with disgust or dislike; aversion; hatred; disinclination.

It is nearly superseded by aversion.

Averse

AVERSE, adjective avers'. [See Avert.] The literal sense of this word is, turned from, in manifestation of dislike. Hence the real sense is,

1. Disliking; unwilling; having a repugnance of mind.

AVERSE alike to flatter or offend.

2. Unfavorable; indisposed; malign.

And Pallas now averse refused her aid.

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.

Milton once uses averse in its literal sense, with from, but it is not according to the English idiom.

Aversely

AVERSELY, adverb avers'ly. With repugnance; unwillingly.

Averseness

AVERSENESS, noun avers'ness. Opposition of mind; dislike; unwillingness; backwardness.

Aversion

AVER'SION, noun [Latin averto.]

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.

A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection.

2. Opposition or contrariety of nature; applied to inanimate substances.

Magnesia, notwithstanding this aversion to solution, forms a kind of paste with water.

3. The cause of dislike.

Pain their aversion pleasure their desire.

Avert

AVERT', verb transitive [Latin averto, a, from, and verto, to turn, anciently, vorto; hence vertex, vortex, averto; probably allied to Latin vario; Eng. veer.]

1. To turn from; to turn off or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object.

2. To keep off, divert or prevent; as, to avert an approaching calamity.

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.

AVERT', verb intransitive To turn away.

Averter

AVERT'ER, noun One that turns away; that which turns away.

Averting

AVERT'ING, participle present tense Turning from; turning away.

Aviary

A'VIARY, noun [Latin aviarium, from avis, a fowl.]

A bird cage; an inclosure for keeping birds confined.

Avidiously

AVID'IOUSLY, adverb [See Avidity.] Eagerly; with greediness.

Avidity

AVID'ITY, noun [Latin aviditas, from avidus, and this from aveo, to desire, to have appetite; Heb. to desire, or covet.]

1. Greediness; strong appetite; applied to the senses:

2. Eagerness; intenseness of desire; applied to the mind.

Avigato

AVIGA'TO,

AVI'LE, verb transitive [See Vile.] To depreciate. [Not in use.]

Avile

AVI'LE, v.t. [See Vile.] To depreciate. [Not in use.]

Avise

AVI'SE,

AVI'SEMENT, noun Advisement. [See Advice and Advise.]

Aviso

AVI'SO, noun Advice; intelligence. [Not in use.]

AVI'SE, verb intransitive s as z. To consider. [Not in use.]

Avocado

AVOCA'DO, noun The Persea, or alligator-pear, a species ranked under the genus Laurus, a native of the W. Indies. The tree has a straight trunk, long oval pointed leaves, and flowers of six petals disposed like a star, produced in clusters, on the extremities of the branches. The fruit is insipid.

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.

Avocate

AV'OCATE, verb transitive [Latin avoco, from a and voco, to call. See Voice and Vocal.]

To call off, or away. [Not used.]

Avocation

AVOCA'TION, noun [See Vocation, Voice, Vocal.]

1. The act of calling aside, or diverting from some employment; as an avocation from sin or from business.

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.

Avocative

AVO'CATIVE, adjective Calling off. [Not used.]

Avoid

AVOID', verb transitive [Eng. side, void, widow; Latin vidua, vito, evito. See Void.]

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.

2. To shift off, or clear off; as, to avoid expense.

3. To quit; to evacuate; to shun by leaving; as, to avoid the house.

4. To escape; as, to avoid danger.

5. To emit or throw out; as, to avoid excretions. For this, void is now generally used.

6. To make void; to annul or vacate.

The grant cannot be avoided without injustice to the grantee.

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.

AVOID', verb intransitive To retire; to withdraw.

David avoided out of his presence. 1 Samuel 18:11. [Improper.]

2. To become void, vacant or empty.

A benefice avoids by common law.

Avoidable

AVOID'ABLE, adjective

1. That may be avoided, left at a distance, shunned or escaped.

2. That may be vacated; liable to be annulled.

Avoidance

AVOID'ANCE, noun

1. The act of avoiding, or shunning.

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.

3. The act of annulling.

4. The course by which any thing is carried off.

Avoided

AVOID'ED, participle passive Shunned; evaded; made void; ejected.

Avoider

AVOID'ER, noun

1. One who avoids, shuns or escapes.

2. The person who carries any thing away; the vessel in which things are carried away.

Avoiding

AVOID'ING, participle present tense Shunning, escaping; keeping at a distance; ejecting; evacuating; making void, or vacant.

Avoidless

AVOID'LESS, adjective That cannot be avoided; inevitable.

Avoirdupois

AVOIRDUPOIS', noun s as z. [See Poise.]

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.

Avolation

AVOLA'TION, noun [Latin avolo, to fly away, of a and volo. See Volatile.]

The act of flying away; flight; escape. [Little used.]

Avoset

AV'OSET,

AVOSET'TA, noun In ornithology, a species of fowls, arranged under the genus, recurvirostra, and placed by Linne in the grallic order, but by Pennant and Latham, among the palmipeds. The bill is long, slender, flexible and bent upward towards the tip. This bird is of the size of a lapwing, with very long legs, and the feathers variegated with black and white. It is found both in Europe and America.

Avosetta

AVOSET'TA, n. In ornithology, a species of fowls, arranged under the genus, recurvirostra, and placed by Linne in the grallic order, but by Pennant and Latham, among the palmipeds. The bill is long, slender, flexible and bent upward towards the tip. This bird is of the size of a lapwing, with very long legs, and the feathers variegated with black and white. It is found both in Europe and America.

Avouch

AVOUCH', verb transitive [Latin voco, advoco. See Voice.]

1. To affirm; to declare or assert with positiveness.

2. To produce or call in; to affirm in favor of, maintain or support.

Such antiquities could be avouched for the Irish.

3. To maintain, vindicate or justify.

AVOUCH', noun Evidence; testimony; declaration. [Little used.]

Avouchable

AVOUCH'ABLE, adjective That may be avouched. [Little used.]

Avouched

AVOUCH'ED, participle passive Affirmed; maintained; called in to support.

Avoucher

AVOUCH'ER, noun One who avouches.

Avouching

AVOUCH'ING, participle present tense Affirming; calling in to maintain; vindicating.

Avouchment

AVOUCH'MENT, noun Declaration; the act of avouching.

Avow

AVOW', verb transitive [Latin voveo.]

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.

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.

AVOW', noun A vow or determination. [Not used.]

Avowable

AVOW'ABLE, adjective That may be avowed, or openly acknowledged with confidence.

Avowal

AVOW'AL, noun An open declaration; frank acknowledgment.

Avowant

AVOW'ANT, noun The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods, and justifies the taking.

Avowed

AVOW'ED, participle passive Openly declared; owned; frankly acknowledged.

Avowedly

AVOW'EDLY, adverb In an open manner; with frank acknowledgment.

Avowee

AVOW'EE, noun Sometimes used for advowee, the person who has a right to present to a benefice, the patron. [See Advowson.]

Avower

AVOW'ER, noun One who avows, owns, or asserts.

Avowing

AVOW'ING, participle present tense Openly declaring; frankly acknowledging; justifying.

Avowry

AVOW'RY, noun In law, the act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking; the act of maintaining the right to distrain, by the distrainer, or defendant in replevin.

Avowtry

AVOW'TRY, [See Advoutry.]

Avulsed

AVULS'ED, adjective [See Avulsion.] Plucked or pulled off.

Avulsion

AVUL'SION, noun [Latin avulsio, from avello, a and vello, to pull coinciding with Heb. to separate; Eng. pull.]

A pulling or tearing asunder; a rending or violent separation.

Await

AWA'IT, verb transitive [a and wait. See Wait.]

Literally, to remain, hold or stay.

1. To wait for; to look for, or expect.

Betwixt the rocky pillars, Gabriel sat,

Chief of the Angelic guards, awaiting night.

2. To be in store for; to attend; to be ready for; as, a glorious reward awaits the good.

AWA'IT, noun Ambush; in a state of waiting for.

Awaiting

AWA'ITING, participle present tense Waiting for; looking for; expecting; being ready or in store for.

Awake

AWA'KE, verb transitive preterit tense awoke, awaked; participle passive awaked. [The Latin vigilo seems to be formed on this root. See Wake.]

1. To rouse from asleep.

I go that I may awake him out of sleep. John 11:11.

2. To excite from a state resembling sleep, as from death, stupidity or inaction; to put into action, or new life; as, to awake the dead; to awake the dormant faculties.

AWA'KE, verb intransitive

1. To cease to sleep; to come from a state of natural sleep.

Jacob awaked out of sleep. Genesis 28:16.

2. To bestir, revive or rouse from a state of inaction; to be invigorated with new life; as, the mind awakes from its stupidity.

Awake, O sword, against my shepherd. Zechariah 13:7.

3. To rouse from spiritual sleep.

Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. Ephesians 5:14.

Awake to righteousness. 1 Corinthians 15:34.

4. To rise from the dead. Job 14:12.

AWA'KE, adjective Not sleeping; in a state of vigilance or action.

Awaken

AWA'KEN, verb transitive awa'kn. This is the word awake, with its Saxon infinitive. It is transitive or intransitive; but more frequently transitive, as awake is more frequently intransitive. its significations are the same as those of awake.

Awakened

AWA'KENED, participle passive Roused from sleep, in a natural or moral sense.

Awakener

AWA'KENER, noun He or that which awakens.

Awakening

AWA'KENING, noun A revival of religion, or more general attention to religion, than usual.

Award

AWARD', verb transitive [See Guard and Regard.]

To adjudge; to give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign by sentence. This word is appropriately used to express the act of arbitrators in pronouncing upon the rights of parties; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to adjective B.

AWARD', verb intransitive To judge; to determine; to make an award

AWARD', noun

1. The judgment, or determination of arbitrators, or the paper containing it.

2. Judgment; sentence; determination of points submitted to arbitrators.

Awarded

AWARD'ED, participle passive Adjudged, or given by judicial sentence, or by the decision of arbitrators.

Awarder

AWARD'ER, noun One that awards, or assigns by sentence or judicial determination; a judge.

Awarding

AWARD'ING, participle present tense Adjudging; assigning by judicial sentence; determining.

Aware

AWA'RE, adjective [See Ware and Wary.]

Watchful; vigilant; guarded; but more strictly in modern usage, apprised; expecting an event from information, or probability; as, the general was aware of the enemy's designs.

AWA'RE, verb intransitive To beware; to be cautious. [Not legitimate.]

Awarn

AWARN', verb transitive To warn, which see.

Awatcha

AWAT'CHA, noun A bird of Kamtchatka, enumerated by Pennant, among the warblers. The upper parts of the body are of a deep brown color; the throat and breast white, with black spots.

Away

AWA'Y, adverb [See Way.]

1. Absent; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.

Have me away for I am wounded. 2 Chronicles 35:23.

2. It is much used with words signifying moving or going from; as, go away send away run away etc.; all signifying departure, or separation to a distance. Sometimes without the verb; as, whither away so fast.

Love hath wings and will away

3. As an exclamation, it is a command or invitation to depart; away that is, be gone, or let us go. 'Away with him.' Take him away

4. With verbs, it serves to modify their sense and form peculiar phrases; as,

To throw away to cast from, to give up, dissipate or foolishly destroy.

To trifle away to lose or expend in trifles, or in idleness.

To drink away to squander away etc., to dissipate in drinking or extravagance.

To make away is to kill or destroy.

5. away with has a peculiar signification in the phrase, 'I cannot away with it.' Isaiah 1:4. The sense is, 'I cannot bear or endure it.'

Awe

AWE, noun aw. [Gr. to be astonished.]

1. Fear mingled with admiration or reverence; reverential fear.

Stand in awe and sin not. Psalms 4:4.

2. Fear; dread inspired by something great, or terrific.

AWE, verb transitive To strike with fear and reverence; to influence by fear, terror or respect; as, his majesty awed them into silence.

Awe-Commanding

AWE-COMMAND'ING, adjective Striking or influencing by awe.

Awe-Inspiring

AWE-INSPI'RING, adjective Impressing with awe.

Aweary

AWE'ARY, adjective Weary, which see.

Aweather

AWEATHER, adverb aweth'er. [a and weather.]

On the weather-side, or towards the wind; as, the helm is aweather; opposed to alee.

Awed

AW'ED, participle passive Struck with fear; influenced by fear or reverence.

Aweigh

AWEIGH', adverb [a and weigh.] Atrip. The anchor is aweigh when it is just drawn out of the ground, and hangs perpendicular. [See Atrip.]

Awestruck

AWE'STRUCK, adjective Impressed or struck with awe.

Awful

AWFUL, adjective [awe and full.]

1. That strikes with awe; that fills with profound reverence; as the awful majesty of Jehovah.

2. That fills with terror and dread; as the awful approach of death.

3. Struck with awe; scrupulous.

A weak and awful reverence for antiquity.

Shakespeare uses it for worshipful, inspiring respect by authority or dignity.

Our common people use this word in the sense of frightful, ugly, detestable.

Awfully

AW'FULLY, adverb In a manner to fill with awe; in a reverential manner.

Awfulness

AW'FULNESS, noun

1. The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; solemnity; as, 'the awfulness of this sacred place.'

2. The state of being struck with awe.

A help to prayer, producing in us reverence and awfulness

[Not legitimate.]

Awhape

AWHAPE, verb transitive awhap'. To strike; to confound. obsolete

[This is our vulgar shop.]

Awhile

AWHILE, adverb [a and while, time, or interval.]

A space of time; for some time; for a short time.

Awk

AWK, adjective

1. Odd; out of order.

2. Clumsy in performance, or manners; unhandy; not dexterous. [Vulgar.]

Awkward

AWK'WARD, adjective [awk and ward.]

1. Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands or of instruments; unready; not dexterous; bungling; untoward.

2. Inelegant; unpolite; ungraceful in manners; clumsy; unnatural; bad.

Awkwardly

AWK'WARDLY, adverb Clumsily; in a rude or bungling manner; inelegantly; badly.

Awkwardness

AWK'WARDNESS, noun Clumsiness; ungracefulness in manners; want of dexterity in the use of the hands or instruments; unsuitableness.

Awl

AWL, noun

An iron instrument for piercing small holes in leather, for sewing and stitching; used by shoemakers, sadlers, etc. The blade is either straight, or a little bent and flattened.

Awless

AW'LESS, adjective [awe and less.]

1. Wanting reverence; void of respectful fear; as awless insolence.

2. Wanting the power of causing reverence; not exciting awe; as an awless throne.

Awlwort

AWL'WORT, noun [awl and wort. See Wort.]

The popular name of the Subularia aquatica, or rough leaved alyssum; so called from its awl-shaped leaves, which grow in clusters round the root. It is a native of Britain and Ireland.

Awm

AWM,

AWN, noun [Gr.]

The beard of corn or grass, as it is usually understood. But technically, a slender sharp process issuing from the chaff or glume in corn and grasses.

Awn

AWN, n. [Gr.] The beard of corn or grass, as it is usually understood. But technically, a slender sharp process issuing from the chaff or glume in corn and grasses.

Awning

AWN'ING, noun

1. A cover of canvas, usually a sail or tarpaulin, spread over a boat or ship's deck, to shelter from the sun's rays, the officers and crew, and preserve the decks.

2. That part of the poop deck which is continued forward beyond the bulk head of the cabin.

Awnless

AWN'LESS, adjective Without awn or beard.

Awny

AWN'Y, adjective Having awns' full of beard.

Awoke

AWO'KE, The preterit of awake.

Awork

AWORK', adverb

At work; in a state of labor or action. [Not used.]

Aworking

AWORK'ING, adverb At work; into a state of working or action.

Awry

AWRY', adjective or adverb

1. Turned or twisted towards one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; asquint; with oblique vision; as, 'to glance a look awry; ' the lady's cap is awry

2. In a figurative sense, turned aside from the line of truth, or right reason; perverse or perversely.

Ax

AX, noun improperly written axe. [Gr.]

An instrument usually of iron, for hewing timber and chopping wood. It consists of a head with an arching edge, and a helve or handle. The ax is of two kinds, the broad ax for hewing, and the narrow ax for rough-hewing and cutting. The hatchet is a small ax to be used with one hand.

Axayacat

AXAYA'CAT, noun A fly in Mexico, whose eggs, deposited on rushes and flags, in large quantities, are sold and used as a sort of caviare, called ahuauhtli. This was a dish among the Mexicans, as it now is among the Spaniards.

Axestone

AXESTONE,

AX'IFORM adjective [Latin axis, and forma.] In the form of an axis.

Axil

AX'IL, noun [Latin axilla; Heb. to separate or set apart; whence armpits.]

1. The armpit; a cavity under the upper part of the arm or shoulder.

2. In botany, the space or angle formed by a branch with the stem, or by a leaf with the stem or branch.

Axillar

AX'ILLAR,

AX'ILLARY, adjective Pertaining to the armpit, or to the axil of plants. Axillary leaves are those which proceed from the angle formed by the stem and branch.

Axillary

AX'ILLARY, a. Pertaining to the armpit, or to the axil of plants. Axillary leaves are those which proceed from the angle formed by the stem and branch.

Axinite

AX'INITE, noun A mineral which sometimes occurs in lamellar masses, but commonly in crystals, whose general form is that of a very oblique rhomb, or rather, four-sided prism, so flattened that some of its edges become thin and sharp, like that of an ax; whence its name, Gr. This is the thumerstone of Kirwan. It has been sometimes called yanolite and violet shorl.

Axinomancy

AXINOM'ANCY, noun [Gr. an ax, and divination.]

Among the ancients, a species of divination, by means of an ax or hatchet, performed by laying an agate-stone on a red hot hatchet, or by fixing a hatchet on a round stake, so as to be poised; then the names of those suspected were repeated, and he at whose name the hatchet moved, was pronounced guilty.

Axiom

AX'IOM, noun [Gr. authority, an authoritative sentence, or that which is assumed, from worthy, and to think worthy, to esteem; Eng. to ask, that which is asked, sought or esteemed.]

1. A self evident truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident at first sight, that no process of reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; as, 'the whole is greater than a part.'

2. An established principle in some art or science; a principle received without new proof; as, 'things which are equal to the same thing, are equal to one another.'

Axiomatic

AXIOMAT'IC,

AXIOMAT'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of self evident truths or received principles.

Axiomatical

AXIOMAT'ICAL, a. Pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of self evident truths or received principles.

Axis

AX'IS, noun plural axes. [Latin ; Gr.]

1. The straight line, real or imaginary, passing through a body, or which it revolves, or may revolve; as the axis of the earth.

2. In geometry, a straight line in a plain figure, about which it revolves to produce a solid.

3. In conic sections, a right line dividing the section into two equal parts, and cutting all its ordinates at right angles.

4. In mechanics, the axis of a balance is that line about which it moves, or rather turns.

The axis of oscillation is a right line parallel to the horizon passing through the center, about which a pendulum vibrates.

The axis in peritrochio is a wheel concentric with the base of a cylinder, and movable with it about its axis

5. In optics, a particular ray of light from any object which falls perpendicularly on the eye.

6. In architecture, spiral axis is the axis of a twisted column spirally drawn in order to trace the circumvolutions without.

Aris of the Ionic capital is a line passing perpendicularly through the middle of the eye of the volute.

The axis of a vessel is an imaginary line passing through the middle of it, perpendicular to its base, and equally distant from its sides.

In botany, axis is a taper column in the center of some flowers or catkins, about which the other parts are disposed.

In anatomy, axis is the name of the second verteber of the neck; it has a tooth which enters into the first verteber, and this tooth is by some called the axis

Axle

AX'LE, AX'LE-TREE, noun [See Axis.]

A piece of timer or bar of iron, fitted for insertion in the hobs or naves of wheels, on which the wheels turn.

Axle-Tree

AX'LE-TREE, n. [See Axis.] A piece of timer or bar of iron, fitted for insertion in the hobs or naves of wheels, on which the wheels turn.

Axolote

AX'OLOTE, noun A water lizard found in the Mexican lake, about eight inches in length, sometimes much larger. The skin is black and soft. It swims with its feet, which resemble those of a frog. It has a periodical evacuation of blood, like the human female.

Axstone

AXSTONE, noun A mineral, a subspecies of jade; less hard than nephrite; of a leek or grass green, olive green or greenish gray color. It occurs amorphous, or in rolled fragments. It is found chiefly in New Zealand and the S. Sea isles, where it is used by the rude natives for axes and other instruments.

Ay

AY,

AYE, adverb

Yes, yea, a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is used also to enforce the sense of what is asserted, equivalent to even so, truly, certainly.

AYE, adverb [Latin avum, which, without its termination, is av, aw; probably a contracted word.]

Always; forever; continually; for an indefinite time; used in poetry.

Aye

AYE, adv. Yes, yea, a word expressing assent, or an affirmative answer to a question. It is used also to enforce the sense of what is asserted, equivalent to even so, truly, certainly. AYE, adv. [L. avum, which, without its termination, is av, aw; probably a contracted word.] Always; forever; continually; for an indefinite time; used in poetry.

Ayle

AYLE, noun In law, a grandfather.

Ayry

A'YRY. [See Aerie.]

Azarole

AZ'AROLE, noun A species of thorn; the three grained medlar, a species of crataegus.

Azerira

AZERI'RA, noun A species of plum or prunus.

Azerit

AZ'ERIT, 'TA,

AZ'IMUTH, noun

1. In astronomy, an arch of the horizon intercepted between the meridian of the place, and the azimuth or vertical circle, passing through the center of the object.

2. Magnetical azimuth, an arch of the horizon, intercepted between the azimuth or vertical circle, passing through the center of any heavenly body, and the magnetic meridian. This is found by observing the object with an azimuth compass.

3. Azimuth compass, an instrument for finding either the magnetic azimuth or amplitude of an heavenly object.

4. Azimuth dial, a dial whose stile or gnomon is at right angles to the plane of the horizon.

5. Azimuths or vertical circles, are great circles intersecting each other in the zenith and nadir, and cutting the horizon at right angles.

On charts, these azimuths are represented by rhumbs, and on the globe, by the quadrant of altitude, when screwed in the zenith.

Azote

AZOTE, noun [Gr. priv. and life, or vital.]

A species of gas, called also mephitic air, and atmospheric mephitis, on account of it fatal effects upon animal life. It is tasteless, and inodorous: it exists in common air, mixed with oxygen, and constitutes about seventy-nine hundredth parts of atmospheric air. It may be obtained, in large quantities, from the muscular fibers of animals. Combined with hydrogen, it forms volatile alkali; and it enters into the composition of most animal substances. It is the radical of nitric acid, and is now called nitrogen gas, or nitrogen.

Azoth

AZ'OTH, noun

1. Among alchimists, the first principle of metals; the mercury of metals; a universal medicine. obsolete

2. The liquor of sublimated quicksilver; brass.

Azotic

AZOT'IC, adjective Pertaining to azote; fatal to animal life.

Azotite

AZ'OTITE, noun A salt formed by a combination of the protoxyd of azote, or nitrous oxyd, with an alkali.

Azure

AZ'URE, adjective azh'ur.

Of a sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the sky.

AZ'URE, azh'ur.

1. The fine blue color of the sky. This word was formerly applied to the lapis lazuli, and the color prepared from it. But it is now applied to the blue extracted from cobalt, though somewhat a different color; the blue of the lapis is called ultramarine. azure is applied also to the blue glass made of the oxyd of cobalt and vitrifiable substances, reduced to fine powder. In large masses it is called smalt.

2. The sky, or azure vault of heaven.

3. In heraldry, a blue color in coats of all persons under the degree of baron.

AZURE, verb transitive To color blue.

Azure-Stone

AZURE-STONE, AZURITE, noun Another name of the lazulite.

Azured

AZURED, adjective Colored azure; being of an azure color.

Azurite

AZURE-STONE, AZURITE noun Another name of the lazulite.

Azurn

AZURN, adjective Of a blue color. [Little used.]

Azyme

AZYME, noun [See Azymous.] Unleavened bread. [Not in use.]

Azymite

AZYMITE, noun [See Azymous.] In church history, azymites are Christians who administer the eucharist with unleavened bread.

Azymous

AZYMOUS, adjective [Gr., leaven.] Unleavened; unfermented; as sea-biscuit.