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v. i. 1. To retire; to withdraw. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

David avoided out of his presence. 1 Sam. xviii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To become void or vacant. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of annulling; annulment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. “The avoidance of pain.” Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The courts by which anything is carried off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unavoidable; inevitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. [ OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., and Poise, n. ] 1. Goods sold by weight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Avoirdupois weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7, 000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144 pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2, 240 pounds (sometimes called a long ton). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Cf. Travail. ] 1. A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises; dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impediments. Julian Ralph. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A logging sled. [ Northern U. S. & Canada ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unavoidable hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage produced by the afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of the womb so as to require detachment before the child can be born. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*void"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]