‖n. [ L., hail. ]
He repeated Aves and Credos. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their loud applause and aves vehement. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ L. avellere. ] To pull away. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Yet are not these parts avelled. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Cf. It. avellana a filbert, fr. L. Avella or Abella a city of Campania. ] (Her.) In the form of four unhusked filberts;
To number Ave Maries on his beads. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ave Maria ! blessed be the hour ! Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
‖n. [ L. ] (Bot.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. avenaceus, fr. avena oats. ] Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ F. avenage, fr. L. avena oats. ] (Old Law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. avena eats. ] (Chem.) A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]
n. [ OF. avenier, fr. aveine, avaine, avoine, oats, F. avoine, L. avena. ] (Feud. Law) An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
He will avenge the blood of his servants. Deut. xxxii. 43. [ 1913 Webster ]
Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones
Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another. C. J. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]