Availability to Averment
Availability
(A*vail`a*bil"i*ty) n.; pl. Availabilities
1. The quality of being available; availableness.
The word is sometimes used derogatively in the sense of "mere availableness," or capability of success
without regard to worthiness.
He was . . . nominated for his availability.
Lowell.
2. That which is available.
Available
(A*vail"a*ble) a.
1. Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea. [Obs.]
Laws human are available by consent.
Hooker.
2. Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible
into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.
Struggling to redeem, as he did, the available months and days out of so many that were unavailable.
Carlyle.
Having no available funds with which to pay the calls on new shares.
H. Spenser.
Availableness
(A*vail"a*ble*ness), n.
1. Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title. [Obs.]
2. Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended. Sir M. Hale.
Availably
(A*vail"a*bly), adv. In an available manner; profitably; advantageously; efficaciously.
Availment
(A*vail"ment) n. Profit; advantage. [Obs.]
Avalanche
(Av"a*lanche`) n. [F. avalanche, fr. avaler to descend, to let down, from aval down, downward; (L.
ad) + val, L. vallis, valley. See Valley.]
1. A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
2. A fall of earth, rocks, etc., similar to that of an avalanche of snow or ice.
3. A sudden, great, or irresistible descent or influx of anything.
Avale
(A*vale") v. t. & i. [F. avaler to descend, to let down. See Avalanche.]
1. To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. To bring low; to abase. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.
3. (v. i.) To descend; to fall; to dismount. [Obs.]
And from their sweaty courses did avale.
Spenser.
Avant
(A*vant") n. [For avant-guard. Cf. Avaunt, Van.] The front of an army. [Obs.] See Van.
Avant-courier
(A*vant"-cou`ri*er) n. [F., fr. avant before + courrier. See Avaunt, and Courier.] A
person dispatched before another person or company, to give notice of his or their approach.
