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- English Word Aventurine Definition A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
- English Word Avenue Definition 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.
- English Word Avenue Definition The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
- English Word Avenue Definition A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York.
- English Word Aver Definition A work horse, or working ox.
- English Word Aver Definition To assert, or prove, the truth of.
- English Word Aver Definition To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.
- English Word Aver Definition To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth.
- English Word Average Definition 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.
- English Word Average Definition A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
- English Word Average Definition Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
- English Word Average Definition A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
- English Word Average Definition The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
- English Word Average Definition 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.
- English Word Average Definition Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
- English Word Average Definition In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
- English Word Average Definition 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.
- English Word Average Definition According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
- English Word Average Definition To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
- English Word Average Definition To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.