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Traditional English :: avouch
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avouchment.html - v.tr. & intr. archaic or rhet. guarantee, affirm, confess. avouchment n. [ME f. OF avochier f. L advocare (as AD-, vocare call)] |
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Traditional English :: avouch
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avouchment.html - v.tr. & intr. archaic or rhet. guarantee, affirm, confess. avouchment n. [ME f. OF avochier f. L advocare (as AD-, vocare call)] |
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Traditional English :: avouch
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avouchment.html - v.tr. & intr. archaic or rhet. guarantee, affirm, confess. avouchment n. [ME f. OF avochier f. L advocare (as AD-, vocare call)] |
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Traditional English :: avocado
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avouchment.html - n. (pl. -os) 1 (in full avocado pear) a pear-shaped fruit with rough leathery skin, a smooth oily edible flesh, and a large stone. 2 the tropical evergreen tree, Persea americana, native to Central America, bearing this fruit. Also called alligator pear. 3 the light green colour of the flesh of this fruit. [Sp., = advocate (substituted for Aztec ahuacatl)] |
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Traditional English :: avocation
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avouchment.html - n.
1 a minor occupation.
2 colloq. a vocation or calling. [L avocatio f. avocare call away] |
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Traditional English :: avocet
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avouchment.html - n. any wading bird of the genus Recurvirostra with long legs and a long slender upward-curved bill and usu. black and white plumage. [F avocette f. It. avosetta] |
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