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a. [ Cf. It. avellana a filbert, fr. L. Avella or Abella a city of Campania. ] (Her.) In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In a brave manner; courageously; gallantly; valiantly; splendidly; nobly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. [ 1913 Webster ]

And [ she ] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Well; thrivingly; prosperously. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos. [ Written also Calcavellos or Carcavelhos. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. caravelle (cf. It. caravella, Sp. carabela), fr. Sp. caraba a kind of vessel, fr. L. carabus a kind of light boat, fr. Gr. ka`rabos a kind of light ship, NGr. kara`bi ship, vessel. ] [ written also carvel and caravelle. ] (Naut.) A name given to several kinds of vessels. (a) The caravel of the 16th century was a small vessel with broad bows, high, narrow poop, four masts, and lateen sails. Columbus commanded three caravels on his great voyage. (b) A Portuguese vessel of 100 or 150 tons burden. (c) A small fishing boat used on the French coast. (d) A Turkish man-of-war. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. A sweet wine. See Calcavella. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Clevis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Clavate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. cineres clavelatti ashes of burnt lees or dregs of wine, F. clavel an inferior sort of soda, E. clavate. ] (Old Chem.) Said of potash, probably in reference to its having been obtained from billets of wood by burning. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Professor Parker Cleaveland. ] (Min.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Disgaveled r Disgaveled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgaveling. ] [ See Gavelkind. ] (Eng. Law) To deprive of that principal quality of gavelkind tenure by which lands descend equally among all the sons of the tenant; -- said of lands. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. fauvel, favel, dim. of F. fauve; of German oigin. See Fallow, a. ] Yellow; fallow; dun. [ Obs. ] Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A horse of a favel or dun color. [ 1913 Webster ]

To curry favel. See To curry favor, under Favor, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. favele, fr. L. fabella short fable, dim. of fabula. See Fable. ] Flattery; cajolery; deceit. [ Obs. ] Skeat. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., prob. from L. favus a honeycomb. ] (Bot.) A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algæ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gavelle, F. javelle, prob. dim. from L. capulus handle, fr. capere to lay hold of, seize; or cf. W. gafael hold, grasp. Cf. Heave. ] A small heap of grain, not tied up into a bundle. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A gable. [ Prov. Eng. ] Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] 1. The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A mason's setting maul. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gavel, AS. gafol, prob. fr. gifan to give. See Give, and cf. Gabel tribute. ] (Law) Tribute; toll; custom. [ Obs. ] See Gabel. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gavel tribute. ] (O. Eng. Law) An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gavelkynde, gavelkende. See Gavel tribute, and Kind, n. ] (O. Eng. Law) A tenure by which land descended from the father to all his sons in equal portions, and the land of a brother, dying without issue, descended equally to his brothers. It still prevails in the county of Kent. Cowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Gavelock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gaveloc a dart, AS. gafeluc; cf. Icel. gaflok, MHG. gabil&unr_;t, OF. gavelot, glavelot, F. javelot, Ir. gabhla spear, W. gaflach fork, dart, E. glave, gaff ] 1. A spear or dart. [ R. & Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An iron crow or lever. [ Scot. & North of Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. gravele, akin to F. gr?ve a sandy shore, strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor. grouan gravel, W. gro coarse gravel, pebbles, and Skr. grāvan stone. ] 1. Small stones, or fragments of stone; very small pebbles, often intermixed with particles of sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Graveled r Gravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Graveling or Gravelling. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cover with gravel; as, to gravel a walk. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To run (as a ship) upon the gravel or beach; to run aground; to cause to stick fast in gravel or sand. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we were fallen into a place between two seas, they graveled the ship. Acts xxvii. 41 (Rhemish version). [ 1913 Webster ]

Willam the Conqueror . . . chanced as his arrival to be graveled; and one of his feet stuck so fast in the sand that he fell to the ground. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To check or stop; to embarrass; to perplex. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When you were graveled for lack of matter. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The physician was so graveled and amazed withal, that he had not a word more to say. Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To hurt or lame (a horse) by gravel lodged between the shoe and foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a grave; unburied.

n. State of being gravelly. [ 1913 Webster ]

or , n. 1. The act of covering with gravel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.).

or , n. (Zool.) A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Abounding with gravel; consisting of gravel; as, a gravelly soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pebble, or small fragment of stone; a calculus. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a grave manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having little or nothing. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Havelock, an English general distinguished in India in the rebellion of 1857. ] A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A vagabond. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. javeline; akin to Sp. jabalina, It. giavelina, and F. javelot, OF. gavlot. Cf. Gavelock. ] 1. A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by the hand; anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; now used chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flies the javelin swifter to its mark,
Launched by the vigor of a Roman arm? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Sport) A wooden shaft resembling a spear, thrown by contestants in a contest called the javelin throw; the one throwing the javelin furthest wins the contest. The javelin throw is one of the field events of the modern Olympic Games. [ PJC ]

v. t. To pierce with a javelin. [ R. ] Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A soldier armed with a javelin. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Leafless. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not visited by many travelers; as, the tourist's desire to visit less-traveled countries. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ From Machiavel (also called Machiavelli), an Italian writer, secretary and historiographer to the republic of Florence. ] Of or pertaining to Machiavelli, or to his supposed principles for conduct of government, as enunciated in his tract The Prince; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity, political expediency, unscrupulous cunning, or bad faith; crafty. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

, n. One who adopts the principles of Machiavelli; a cunning and unprincipled politician. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. machiavélisme; It. machiavellismo. ] The supposed principles of Machiavelli, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. nafela, fr. nafu nave; akin to D. navel, G. nabel, OHG. nabolo, Icel. nafli, Dan. navle, Sw. nafle, L. umbilicus, Gr. 'omfalo`s, Skr. nābhīla. √260. See Nave hub, and cf. Omphalic, Nombril, Umbilical. ] 1. (Anat.) A mark or depression in the middle of the abdomen; the umbilicus; called also belly button in humans. See Umbilicus. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The central part or point of anything; the middle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Within the navel of this hideous wood,
Immured in cypress shades, a sorcerer dwells. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Gun.) An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson. --
Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondary fruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit or depression at the apex. There are several varieties; they are usually seedless, or nearly so, and are much grown in California. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. The umbilical cord. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A European perennial succulent herb (Cotyledon umbilicus), having round, peltate leaves with a central depression; -- also called pennywort, and kidneywort. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in speed or distance traveled. Mad. D' Arblay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Raveled r Ravelled; p. pr. & vb. n. Raveling or Ravelling. ] [ OD. ravelen, D. rafelen, akin to LG. rebeln, rebbeln, reffeln. ] 1. To separate or undo the texture of; to unravel; to take apart; to untwist; to unweave or unknit; -- often followed by out; as, to ravel a twist; to ravel out a stocking. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sleep, that knits up the raveled sleave of care. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To undo the intricacies of; to disentangle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pull apart, as the threads of a texture, and let them fall into a tangled mass; hence, to entangle; to make intricate; to involve. [ 1913 Webster ]

What glory's due to him that could divide
Such raveled interests? has the knot untied? Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

The faith of very many men seems a duty so weak and indifferent, is so often untwisted by violence, or raveled and entangled in weak discourses! Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]