Part 808

<h1>Avenor</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av"e*nor</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Avener</er>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Avens</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av"ens</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>avence</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A plant of the genus <i>Geum</i>, esp. <i>Geum urbanum</i>, or herb bennet.</def>

<h1>Aventail</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av"en*tail</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>esventail</ets>. Cf. <er>Ventail</er>.]</ety> <def>The movable front to a helmet; the ventail.</def>

<h1>Aventine</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av"en*tine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to <i>Mons Aventinus</i>, one of the seven hills on which Rome stood.</def>

<i>Bryant.</i>

<h1>Aventine</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av"en*tine</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A post of security or defense.</def> <mark>[Poetic]</mark>

<blockquote>Into the castle's tower, The only <b>Aventine</b> that now is left him. <i>Beau. & Fl.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Aventre</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>A*ven"tre</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Aventure</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>A*ven"ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Adventure</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Accident; chance; adventure.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Old Law)</fld> <def>A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.</def>

<h1>Aventurine</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>A*ven"tu*rine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>aventurine</ets>: cf. It. <ets>avventurino</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (<i>par aventure</i>) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.</def>

<cs><col>\'f7 feldspar</col>, <cd>a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.</cd></cs>

<h1>Avenue</h1> <Xpage=104>

<hw>Av"e*nue</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>avenue</ets>, fr. <ets>avenir</ets> to come to, L. <ets>advenire</ets>. See <er>Advene</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def> "The <i>avenues</i> leading to the city by land."

<i>Macaulay.</i>

<blockquote>On every side were expanding new <b>avenues</b> of inquiry. <i>Milman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>