A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions - Soule Richard

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profit, be of advantage to.Avail one's self of, Use, employ, take advantage of, turn to account, make use of.Avail, v. n. Be of advantage, do good, be of use, answer the purpose.Avail, n. Profit, advantage, benefit, use, utility, service.Avails, n. pl. Proceeds, profits, returns.

      Available, a. 1. To be availed of, to be turned to account.2. Serviceable, useful, profitable, advantageous, beneficial.3. Suitable or fit (for some purpose), likely to answer the end.Avant-courier, n. Harbinger, forerunner, herald.Avant-guard, n. Van, advanced guard.Avarice, n. Penuriousness, cupidity, niggardliness, closeness, covetousness.Avaricious, a. Miserly, penurious, parsimonious, sordid, illiberal, niggardly, mercenary, close, stingy, mean, grasping, close-fisted, hard-fisted, COVETOUS, eager for gain (for the sake of hoarding it).Avast, interj. (Naut.) Hold, stop, stay, enough.Avaunt, interj. Hence, begone, be off, get you gone.Avenge, v. a. 1. Take satisfaction for, award just punishment for.2. Revenge, vindicate (by punishment of an offender), inflict punishment in behalf of.3. [So used by the translators of the Bible.] Take revenge upon, treat revengefully.Avengement, n. [Rare.] Avenging.Avenue, n. 1. Passage, entrance, entry, access, way of approach, passage-way.2. Alley, walk, street, road, path.3. Channel, route, way, pass.Aver, v. a. Assert, affirm, declare, asseverate, protest, avouch, allege, say, pronounce, predicate.Average, n. 1. Medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity.2. Mediocrity, medial standard, average standard.Average, v. a. 1. Equate, reduce to an average, reduce to a mean.2. (Com.) Proportion, distribute proportionally.Average, v. n. Amount to, or result in, when the mean is taken.Average, a. 1. Medial, mean.2. Middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad.Averment, n. Affirmation, declaration, assertion, remark, asseveration, protestation, avowal, word.Avernus, n. (Mythol.) Hell, Tartarus, Hades, Erebus, the lower world, the infernal regions, shades below.Averse, a. Unwilling, disinclined, indisposed, reluctant, loath, backward, adverse, opposed.Aversion, n. 1. Dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, reluctance, unwillingness, repugnance, backwardness.2. Antipathy, hatred, loathing, disgust, nausea, detestation, abhorrence, horror.Avert, v. a. 1. Turn aside, turn away, turn off.2. Prevent, divert, preclude, FOREFEND, ward off, keep off.Avid, a. [Rare.] Eager, greedy.Avidity, n. 1. Eagerness, longing, yearning, intense desire.2. Greediness, craving, voracity, rapacity, voraciousness, ravenousness, canine appetite.Avocation, n. Occasional business (business that calls aside).Avoid, v. a. 1. Shun (in a negative sense, or denoting care only without positive exertion), eschew, escape, blink, elude, keep away from, keep aloof from, keep out of the way of, withdraw from, keep clear of, be shy of, fight shy of, have nothing to do with.2. Forbear, help, refrain from.Avoset, n. Scooper.Avouch, v. a. Affirm, assert, asseverate, declare, protest, allege, say, maintain.Avow, v. a. Acknowledge, confess, own, profess, declare, affirm.Avowal, n. Acknowledgment, confession, declaration, profession, manifesto.Await, v. a. 1. Expect, abide, wait for, stay for, look for, be in readiness for.2. Attend, be in store for, be prepared for, be ready for.Awake, a. 1. Not asleep.2. Attentive, watchful, vigilant, alive, on the alert.Awake, v. a. &n. Awaken.Awaken, v. a. 1. Awake, wake, rouse from sleep.2. Arouse, excite, kindle, spur, incite, stimulate, provoke, stir up.Awaken, v. n. Wake, waken, be awakened, be roused from sleep.Awakening, n. Revival.Award, v. a. Adjudge, decrees.Award, n. Judgment, decree, adjudication, determination, decision.Aware, a. Mindful, conscious, cognizant, observant, apprised, sensible, convinced, persuaded.Away, ad. 1. Absent, gone, off, from home, at a distance, not present.2. Begone, let us go.Away with, Take away.Awe, n. 1. Reverence, veneration, reverential fear.2. Dread, fearfulness.Awe, v. a. Overawe, intimidate, frighten, affright, daunt, cow, inspire with awe.Awe-struck, a. Dismayed, horrified, appalled, terrified, frightened, panic-stricken, horror-struck.Awful, a. 1. Venerable, august, grand, stately, imposing, solemn, majestic.2. Dread, dreadful, fearful, horrible, horrid, terrible, dire, direful, frightful, appalling, tremendous.3. [Vulgar.] Ugly, homely, unsightly, ill-looking.Awhile, ad. For a time, for some time, some time, for a while.Awkward, a. 1. Unskilful, bungling, unhandy, maladroit, inapt, without dexterity.2. Unwieldy, unmanageable, inconvenient, unfit, lumbering.3. Uncouth, unrefined, unpolished, uncourtly, rude, rough, clumsy, coarse, wooden, inelegant, ungainly, untoward, ungraceful, stiff, constrained, uneasy, rustic, boorish, clownish, loutish, gawky, lubberly, slouching.Awned, a. (Bot.) Aristate, bearded.Awning, n. Canopy, tilt.Awry, ad. 1. Obliquely, asquint, askance.2. Perversely, wrong.Awry, a. Oblique, slanting, distorted, crooked, wry.Axilla, n. [L. pl. Axillæ.] (Anat.) Armpit.Axiom, n. 1. Truism, self-evident proposition, intuitive truth, necessary truth.2. Postulate, established principle (not of necessity true), proposition commonly received, assumed truth.Axiomatic, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.Axiomatical, a. Self-evident, certain, positive, absolute.Axis, n. Shaft, spindle, arbor.Ay, ad. Yes.Aye, ad. Yes.Aye, ad. [Poetical.] Always, for ever.Azote, n. Nitrogen.Azure, a. Blue, cerulean, sky-colored, sky-blue.Azure, n. Blue, sky-color.

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      Babble, v.n. 1. Prattle, jabber, chatter, talk inarticulately.2. Prate, chat, gossip, palaver, tattle, be loquacious, talk idly or thoughtlessly.Babble, v. a. Tell (foolishly), prate, utter, prate about.Babble, n. Prattle, palaver, chit-chat, gabble, twaddle, chatter, balderdash, platitude, flummery, wish-wash, stuff, moonshine, fudge, trash, nonsense, small talk, idle talk, childish or foolish talk, frothy discourse.Babbling, n. 1. Prattle, BABBLE.2. Garrulity, loquacity, loquaciousness, talkativeness.Babe, n. Infant, baby, nursling, suckling, chit, brat, bantling, BAIRN, little one.Babel, n. Confusion, disorder, tumult, pother, hurly-burly.Baby, n. Infant, BABE.Babyhood, n. Infancy.Baccalaureate, n. Degree of bachelor of arts.Baccate, a. (Bot.) Of a pulpy nature (like a berry).Bacchanal, n. Reveller, carouser, bacchanalian.Bacchanal, a. Riotous, revelling, noisy, bacchanalian.Bacchanalian, n. and a. Bacchanal.Bacchanals, n. pl. Revelry, revels, orgies, carousal, debauch, drunken frolic, potation, compotation, wassail, Saturnalia, drunken feasts.Back, n. 1. Upper part, outer part.2. Hinder part.Back, a. 1. Remote.2. Hindmost, in the rear.3. In a backward direction.Back, ad. 1. To the place of starting.2. Backward, rearward, abaft, in the rear, towards what is behind.3. In return, in recompense.Back, v. a. 1. Assist, aid, second, support, countenance, favor, sustain, abet, side with, stand by, take part with, give support to, co-operate with, back up.2. Move backward.Backbite, v. a. Defame, traduce, malign, slander, revile, calumniate, libel, lampoon, asperse, vilify, blacken, abuse, scandalize, run down, speak ill of.Backbiter, n. Slanderer,

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