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n. [ L. asseveratio. ] The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Asseverative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. average, LL. averagium, prob. fr. OF. aver, F. avoir, property, horses, cattle, etc.; prop. infin., to have, from L. habere to have. Cf. F. avérage small cattle, and avarie (perh. of different origin) damage to ship or cargo, port dues. The first meaning was perhaps the service of carting a feudal lord's wheat, then charge for carriage, the contribution towards loss of things carried, in proportion to the amount of each person's property. Cf. Aver, n., Avercorn, Averpenny. ] 1. (OLd Eng. Law) That service which a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the work beasts of the tenant, as the carriage of wheat, turf, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. F. avarie damage to ship or cargo. ] (Com.) (a) A tariff or duty on goods, etc. [ Obs. ] (b) Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped. (c) A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils. (d) The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested. [ 1913 Webster ]

General average, a contribution made, by all parties concerned in a sea adventure, toward a loss occasioned by the voluntary sacrifice of the property of some of the parties in interest for the benefit of all. It is called general average, because it falls upon the gross amount of ship, cargo, and freight at risk and saved by the sacrifice. Kent. --
Particular average signifies the damage or partial loss happening to the ship, or cargo, or freight, in consequence of some fortuitous or unavoidable accident; and it is borne by the individual owners of the articles damaged, or by their insurers. --
Petty averages are sundry small charges, which occur regularly, and are necessarily defrayed by the master in the usual course of a voyage; such as port charges, common pilotage, and the like, which formerly were, and in some cases still are, borne partly by the ship and partly by the cargo. In the clause commonly found in bills of lading, “primage and average accustomed, ” average means a kind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A mean proportion, medial sum or quantity, made out of unequal sums or quantities; an arithmetical mean. Thus, if A loses 5 dollars, B 9, and C 16, the sum is 30, and the average 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc. “The average of sensations.” Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. pl. In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets. [ 1913 Webster ]

On an average, taking the mean of unequal numbers or quantities. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Pertaining to an average or mean; medial; containing a mean proportion; of a mean size, quality, ability, etc.; ordinary; usual; as, an average rate of profit; an average amount of rain; the average Englishman; beings of the average stamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Averaged (&unr_;); p. pr. & vb. n. Averaging. ] 1. To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an average; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. bevrage, F. breuvage, fr. beivre to drink, fr. L. bibere. Cf. Bib, v. t., Poison, Potable. ] 1. Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage. [ 1913 Webster ]

He knew no beverage but the flowing stream. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specifically, a name applied to various kinds of drink. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A treat, or drink money. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A human skull reported, by Prof. J. D. Whitney, as found in 1886 in a Tertiary auriferous gravel deposit, lying below a bed of black lava, in Calaveras County, California. It is regarded as very doubtful whether the skull really belonged to the deposit in which it was found. If it did, it indicates an unprecedented antiquity for human beings of an advanced type. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. the range of items covered. Coverage may be small (narrow coverage }, or large (broad coverage or wide coverage). [ PJC ]

2. The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

3. the state of being insured; insurance. [ PJC ]

4. the areas reached by a radio transmission signal, or group of people reached by a communications medium, such as television or a newspaper. [ PJC ]

5. the range of topics treated in a discourse or document, or the depth to which a subject is discussed; as, a news program may have extensive coverage of an event. “gavel-to-gavel coverage of the Democratic convention.” [ PJC ]

6. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio of television; as, they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations.
Syn. -- reporting, reportage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a loose-fitting one-piece garment that is worn over other clothing, especially one with trouser-like pants legs. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. délivrance, fr. délivrer. ] 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like; rescue; as, the deliverance of a captive. [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives. Luke iv. 18. [ 1913 Webster ]

One death or one deliverance we will share. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Act of bringing forth children. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Act of speaking; utterance. [ Archaic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In this and in the preceding sense delivery is the word more commonly used. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The state of being delivered, or freed from restraint. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do desire deliverance from these officers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Anything delivered or communicated; esp., an opinion or decision expressed publicly. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Metaph.) Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being discoverable. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. dessevrance. ] The act of disserving; separation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of disserving; disseverance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) an index of certain stock prices on the New York Stock Exchange, computed by the Dow Jones publishing company as a weighted average of the prices of the common stocks of 30 specific companies classified as "industrial". The Dow Jones Industrial Average is often taken as an indicator of the movement of American stock prices generally, though other indices are maintained, averaging the prices of other stocks, and these often change in opposite directions from those of the DJIA.
Syn. -- DJI, DJIA, Dow, Dow Jones, Dow-Jones Average. [ PJC ]

a. Not persevering; fickle; thoughtless. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not discoverable; undiscoverable. J. Conybeare. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Incapable of being severed; indivisible; inseparable. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of veracity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon.

Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.

-- Ir`re*cov"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- Ir`re*cov"er*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The action of a lever; mechanical advantage gained by the lever. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leverage of a couple (Mech.), the perpendicular distance between the lines of action of two forces which act in parallel and opposite directions. --
Leverage of a force, the perpendicular distance from the line in which a force acts upon a body to a point about which the body may be supposed to turn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. present in excess.
Syn. -- plethoric, rife. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. A student who attains higher standards than expected based on the IQ score. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A person whose achievements exceed what was expected based on his/her background, education, or mental ability. [ PJC ]

v. t. 1. To act or perform to excess; to exaggerate in acting; as, he overacted his part. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act upon, or influence, unduly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The hope of inheritance overacts them. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act more than is necessary; to go to excess in action. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Performance to excess; exaggerated or excessive action. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To affect or care for unduly. [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. too old to be useful.
Syn. -- overage, superannuated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To agitate or discuss beyond what is expedient. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Everywhere. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. 1. A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Waterproof leggings. R. D. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being overanxious; excessive anxiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Anxious in an excessive or needless degree. -- O"ver*anx"ious*ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. an appraisal that is too high.
Syn. -- overestimate, overestimation, overvaluation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. & i. To make or place an arch over; to hang over like an arch. “Brown with o'erarching shades.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Forming an arch (over something). [ PJC ]

2. Dominating or overshadowing all other considerations. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overawed p. pr. & vb. n. Overawing. ] To awe exceedingly; to intimidate or subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king was present in person to overlook the magistrates, and overawe these subjects with the terror of his sword. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Awful, or reverential, in an excessive degree. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of herbs or shrubs having milky and often colored juices and capsular fruits.
Syn. -- family Papaveraceae, poppy family. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural family of plants (Papaveraceae) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. persévérance, L. perseverantia. ] 1. The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun. “The king-becoming graces . . . perseverance, mercy, lowliness.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose constant perseverance overcame
Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Discrimination. [ Obs. ] Sir J. Harrington. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Theol.) Continuance in a state of grace until it is succeeded by a state of glory; sometimes called final perseverance, and the perseverance of the saints. See Calvinism. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Persistence; steadfastness; constancy; steadiness; pertinacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. perseverans, -antis, p. pr.: cf. F. persévérant. ] Persevering. [ R. ] “Perseverant faith.” Whitby. -- Per`se*ver"ant*ly, adv. [R.] [1913 Webster]

a. Capable of being reduced to fine powder; pulverizable. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Having a finely powdered surface; pulverulent. [ 1913 Webster ]