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    3. Channel, route, way, pass.

Aver, v. a. Assert, declare, asseverate, protest, avouch, allege, say, pronounce, predicate. See affirm.

Average, n.

    1. Medium, mean proportion, medial sum or quantity.
    2. Mediocrity, medium grade, mean 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, medium, mean.
    2. Middling, ordinary, passable, moderate, tolerable, well enough, pretty well, not bad.

Averment, n. Affirmation, declaration, assertion, remark, asseveration, protestation, avowal, word. See aver.

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.
    2. Antipathy, hatred, loathing, disgust, detestation, abhorrence, horror.

Avert, v. a.

    1. Turn aside, turn away, turn off.
    2. Prevent, divert, preclude, ward off, keep off. See forefend.

Avid, a. (Rare.) Eager, greedy.