Antislavery :: Antislavery (a.) Opposed to slavery.

Antislavery :: Antislavery (n.) Opposition to slavery.

Aver :: Aver (n.) A work horse, or working ox..

Aver :: Aver (v. t.) To assert, or prove, the truth of..

Aver :: Aver (v. t.) To avouch or verify; to offer to verify; to prove or justify. See Averment.

Aver :: Aver (v. t.) To affirm with confidence; to declare in a positive manner, as in confidence of asserting the truth..

Average :: Average (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..

Average :: Average (n.) A tariff or duty on goods, etc..

Average :: Average (n.) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.

Average :: Average (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.

Average :: Average (n.) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.

Average :: Average (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..

Average :: Average (n.) Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc..

Average :: Average (n.) In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets..

Average :: Average (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..

Average :: Average (a.) According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution..

Average :: Average (v. t.) To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean..

Average :: Average (v. t.) To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss..

Average :: Average (v. t.) To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average..

Average :: Average (v. i.) To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length..

Averaged :: Averaged (imp. & p. p.) of Averag.

Averaging :: Averaging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Averag.

Avercorn :: Avercorn (n.) A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers..

Averment :: Averment (v. t.) The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion..

Averment :: Averment (v. t.) Verification; establishment by evidence.

Averment :: Averment (v. t.) A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.

Avernal :: Avernal (a.) Alt. of Avernia.

Avernian :: Avernian (a.) Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions..

Averpenny :: Averpenny (n.) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

Averred :: Averred (imp. & p. p.) of Ave.

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