Part 818

<hw>Av`oir*du*pois"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. & a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>aver de peis</ets>, goods of weight, where <ets>peis</ets> is fr. OF. <ets>peis</ets> weight, F. <ets>poids</ets>, L. <ets>pensum</ets>. See <er>Aver</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and <er>Poise</er>, <ets>n</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Goods sold by weight.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

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

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Weight; heaviness; <as>as, a woman of much <ex>avoirdupois</ex></as>.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>

<cs><col>Avoirdupois weight</col>, <cd>a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea.</cd></cs>

<note>&hand; The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62&deg; Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7,000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144 pounds troy. (See <er>Troy weight</er>.) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2,240 pounds (sometimes called a <i>long ton</i>).</note>

<h1>Avoke</h1> <Xpage=106>

<hw>A*voke"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Avocate</er>.]</ety> <def>To call from or back again.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Burnet.</i>

<h1>Avolate</h1> <Xpage=106>

<hw>Av"o*late</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>avolare</ets>; <ets>a</ets> (<ets>ab</ets>) + <ets>volare</ets> to fly.]</ety> <def>To fly away; to escape; to exhale.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Avolation</h1> <Xpage=106>

<hw>Av`o*la"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[LL. <ets>avolatio</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act of flying; flight; evaporation.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Avoset</h1> <Xpage=106>

<hw>Av"o*set</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Avocet</er>.</def>

<h1>Avouch</h1> <Xpage=106>

<hw>A*vouch"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Avouched</er> (<?/); <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Avouching</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>avochier</ets>, LL. <ets>advocare</ets> to recognize the existence of a thing, to advocate, fr. L. <ets>advocare</ets> to call to; <ets>ad</ets> + <ets>vocare</ets> to call. Cf. <er>Avow</er> to declare, <er>Advocate</er>, and see <er>Vouch</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>They <b>avouch</b> many successions of authorities. <i>Coke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To maintain a just or true; to vouch for.</def>

<blockquote>We might be disposed to question its authencity, it if were not <b>avouched</b> by the full evidence. <i>Milman.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To declare or assert positively and as matter of fact; to affirm openly.</def>

<blockquote>If this which he <b>avouches</b> does appear. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Such antiquities could have been <b>avouched</b> for the Irish. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To acknowledge deliberately; to admit; to confess; to sanction.</def>

<blockquote>Thou hast <b>avouched</b> the Lord this day to be thy God. <i>Deut. xxvi. 17.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Avouch</h1> <Xpage=106>

<hw>A*vouch"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Evidence; declaration.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The sensible and true <b>avouch</b> Of mine own eyes. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Avouchable</h1> <Xpage=106>