Part 806

<h1>Ave</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>A"ve</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L., hail.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>An ave Maria.</def>

<blockquote>He repeated <b>Aves</b> and Credos. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A reverential salutation.</def>

<blockquote>Their loud applause and <b>aves</b> vehement. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Avel</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>A*vel</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>avellere</ets>.]</ety> <def>To pull away.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Yet are not these parts <b>avelled</b>. <i>Sir T. Browne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Avellane</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>A*vel"lane</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. It. <ets>avellana</ets> a filbert, fr. L. <ets>Avella</ets> or <ets>Abella</ets> a city of Campania.]</ety> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>In the form of four unhusked filberts; <as>as, an <ex>avellane</ex> cross</as>.</def>

<h1>Ave Maria, Ave Mary</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw><hw>A"ve Ma*ri"a</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>A"ve Ma"ry</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>.<hw><ety>[From the first words of the Roman Catholic prayer to the Virgin Mary; L. <ets>ave</ets> hail, <ets>Maria</ets> Mary.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A salutation and prayer to the Virgin Mary, as mother of God; -- used in the Roman Catholic church.</def>

<blockquote>To number <b>Ave Maries</b> on his beads. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A particular time (as in Italy, at the ringing of the bells about half an hour after sunset, and also at early dawn), when the people repeat the Ave Maria.</def>

<blockquote><b>Ave Maria</b> ! blessed be the hour ! <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Avena</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>A*ve"na</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A genus of grasses, including the common oat <spn>(Avena sativa)</spn>; the oat grasses.</def>

<h1>Avenaceous</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av`e*na"ceous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>avenaceus</ets>, fr. <ets>avena</ets> oats.]</ety> <def>Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses.</def>

<h1>Avenage</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av"e*nage</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>avenage</ets>, fr. L. <ets>avena</ets> oats.]</ety> <fld>(Old Law)</fld> <def>A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent.</def>

<i>Jacob.</i>

<h1>Avener</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av"e*ner</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>avenier</ets>, fr. <ets>aveine</ets>, <ets>avaine</ets>, <ets>avoine</ets>, oats, F. <ets>avoine</ets>, L. <ets>avena</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Feud. Law)</fld> <def>An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Avenge</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>A*venge"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Avenged</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Avenging</er> (<?/).]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>avengier</ets>; L. <ets>ad</ets> + <ets>vindicare</ets> to lay claim to, to avenge, revenge. See <er>Vengeance</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.</def>

<blockquote>He will <b>avenge</b> the blood of his servants. <i>Deut. xxxii. 43.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Avenge</b>, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>