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2. (Zo[94]l.) A scaup duck. See below. {Scaup duck} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus {Aythya}, or {Fuligula}. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck ({Aythya marila}, var. nearctica), called also {broadbill}, {bluebill}, {blackhead}, {flock duck}, {flocking fowl}, and {raft duck}; the lesser scaup duck ({A. affinis}), called also {little bluebill}, {river broadbill}, and {shuffler}; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ({A. collaris}), called also {black jack}, {ringneck}, {ringbill}, {ringbill shuffler}, etc. See Illust.. of {Ring-necked duck}, under {Ring-necked}. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck ({A. marila}), closely resembles the American variety. | |
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d8Coaita \[d8]Co*ai"ta\ (k[osl]*[aum][icr]"t[adot]), n. (Zo[94]l.) The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genus {Ateles}, esp. {A. paniscus}. The black-faced coaita is {Ateles ater}. See Illustration in Appendix. | |
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Maple \Ma"ple\, n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel. m[94]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.] (Bot.) A tree of the genus {Acer}, including about fifty species. {A. saccharinum} is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is {A. rubrum}; the silver maple, {A. dasycarpum}, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, {A. Pennsylvanium}, called also {moosewood}. The common maple of Europe is {A. campestre}, the sycamore maple is {A. Pseudo-platanus}, and the Norway maple is {A. platanoides}. Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc. {Bird's-eye maple}, {Curled maple}, varieties of the wood of the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is produced by the sinuous course of the fibers. {Maple honey}, {Maple molasses}, [or] {Maple sirup}, maple sap boiled to the consistency of molasses. {Maple sugar}, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple by evaporation. | |
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Manzanita \Man`za*ni"ta\, n. [Sp., dim. of munzana an apple.] (Bot.) A name given to several species of {Arctostaphylos}, but mostly to {A. glauca} and {A. pungens}, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear. | |
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Abeyance \A*bey"ance\, n. [OF. abeance expectation, longing; a (L. ad) + baer, beer, to gape, to look with open mouth, to expect, F. bayer, LL. badare to gape.] 1. (Law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined. Note: When there is no person in existence in whom an inheritance (or a dignity) can vest, it is said to be in abeyance, that is, in expectation; the law considering it as always potentially existing, and ready to vest whenever a proper owner appears. --Blackstone. 2. Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. --De Quincey. | |
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Abeyancy \A*bey"an*cy\, n. Abeyance. [R.] --Hawthorne. | |
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Abnegate \Ab"ne*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abnegated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abnegating}.] [L. abnegatus,p. p. of abnegare; ab + negare to deny. See {Deny}.] To deny and reject; to abjure. --Sir E. Sandys. Farrar. | |
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Abnegate \Ab"ne*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abnegated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abnegating}.] [L. abnegatus,p. p. of abnegare; ab + negare to deny. See {Deny}.] To deny and reject; to abjure. --Sir E. Sandys. Farrar. | |
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Abnegate \Ab"ne*gate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Abnegated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Abnegating}.] [L. abnegatus,p. p. of abnegare; ab + negare to deny. See {Deny}.] To deny and reject; to abjure. --Sir E. Sandys. Farrar. | |
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Abnegation \Ab`ne*ga"tion\, n. [L. abnegatio: cf. F. abn[82]gation.] a denial; a renunciation. With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. --Knox. | |
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Abnegative \Ab"ne*ga*tive\, a. [L. abnegativus.] Denying; renouncing; negative. [R.] --Clarke. | |
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Abnegator \Ab"ne*ga`tor\, n. [L.] One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [R.] | |
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Affamish \Af*fam"ish\ ([acrf]*f[acr]m"[icr]sh), v. t. & i. [F. affamer, fr. L. ad + fames hunger. See {Famish}.] To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Affamishment \Af*fam"ish*ment\ (-m[eit]nt), n. Starvation. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Affiance \Af*fi"ance\, n. [OE. afiaunce trust, confidence, OF. afiance, fr. afier to trust, fr. LL. affidare to trust; ad + fidare to trust, fr. L. fides faith. See {Faith}, and cf. {Affidavit}, {Affy}, {Confidence}.] 1. Plighted faith; marriage contract or promise. 2. Trust; reliance; faith; confidence. Such feelings promptly yielded to his habitual affiance in the divine love. --Sir J. Stephen. Lancelot, my Lancelot, thou in whom I have Most joy and most affiance. --Tennyson. | |
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Affiance \Af*fi"ance\, v. t. [imp. [?] p. p. {Affianced}; p. pr. [?] vb. n. {Affiancing}.] [Cf. OF. afiancier, fr. afiance.] 1. To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. --Spenser. 2. To assure by promise. [Obs.] --Pope. | |
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Affiance \Af*fi"ance\, v. t. [imp. [?] p. p. {Affianced}; p. pr. [?] vb. n. {Affiancing}.] [Cf. OF. afiancier, fr. afiance.] 1. To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. --Spenser. 2. To assure by promise. [Obs.] --Pope. | |
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Affiancer \Af*fi"an*cer\, n. One who makes a contract of marriage between two persons. | |
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Affiance \Af*fi"ance\, v. t. [imp. [?] p. p. {Affianced}; p. pr. [?] vb. n. {Affiancing}.] [Cf. OF. afiancier, fr. afiance.] 1. To betroth; to pledge one's faith to for marriage, or solemnly promise (one's self or another) in marriage. To me, sad maid, he was affianced. --Spenser. 2. To assure by promise. [Obs.] --Pope. | |
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Affy \Af*fy"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Affied}; p. pr. {Affying}.] [OF. afier, LL. affidare. Cf. {Affiance}.] 1. To confide (one's self to, or in); to trust. [Obs.] 2. To betroth or espouse; to affiance. [Obs.] --Shak. 3. To bind in faith. [Obs.] --Bp. Montagu. | |
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Apanage \Ap"an*age\, n. Same as {Appanage}. | |
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Harvesting \Har"vest*ing\, a. & n., from {Harvest}, v. t. {Harvesting ant} (Zo[94]l.), any species of ant which gathers and stores up seeds for food. Many species are known. Note: The species found in Southern Europe and Palestine are {Aphenogaster structor} and {A. barbara}; that of Texas, called {agricultural ant}, is {Pogonomyrmex barbatus} or {Myrmica molifaciens}; that of Florida is {P. crudelis}. See {Agricultural ant}, under {Agricultural}. | |
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Aphonic \A*phon"ic\, Aphonous \Aph"o*nous\, a. Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal. | |
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Aphonic \A*phon"ic\, Aphonous \Aph"o*nous\, a. Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal. | |
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Ape \Ape\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Aping}.] To mimic, as an ape imitates human actions; to imitate or follow servilely or irrationally. [bd]How he apes his sire.[b8] --Addison. The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried. --Burke. | |
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Smallage \Small"age\, n. [Small + F. ache smallage. See {Ach} parsley.] (Bot.) A biennial umbelliferous plant ({Apium graveolens}) native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes {celery}. | |
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Celery \Cel"er*y\, n. [F. c[82]leri, cf. Prov. It. seleno, seler; fr. Gr. [?] parsley, in Lgr. & NGr. celery. Cf. {Parsley}.] (Bot.) A plant of the Parsley family ({Apium graveolens}), of which the blanched leafstalks are used as a salad. | |
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Apomecometer \Ap`o*me*com"e*ter\, n. An instrument for measuring the height of objects. --Knight. | |
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Apomecometry \Ap`o*me*com"e*try\, n. [Pref. apo- + Gr. [?] length + -metry.] The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off. [Obs. or R.] | |
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Appanage \Ap"pa*nage\, n. [F. apanage, fr. OF. apaner to nourish, support, fr. LL. apanare to furnish with bread, to provision; L. ad + pains bread.] 1. The portion of land assigned by a sovereign prince for the subsistence of his younger sons. 2. A dependency; a dependent territory. | |
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Appanagist \Ap*pan"a*gist\ ([acr]p*p[acr]n"[adot]*j[icr]st), n. [F. apanagiste.] A prince to whom an appanage has been granted. | |
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Appenage \Ap"pen*age\, n. See {Appanage}. | |
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Appension \Ap*pen"sion\, n. The act of appending. [Obs.] | |
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Avaunce \A*vaunce"\, v. t. & i. [See {Advance}.] To advance; to profit. --Chaucer. | |
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Oat \Oat\ ([omac]t), n.; pl. {Oats} ([omac]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS. [amac]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.] 1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Avena sativa}), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense. 2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton. {Animated oats} or {Animal oats} (Bot.), A grass ({Avena sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. {Oat fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.] {Oat grass} (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as {Danthonia spicata}, {D. sericea}, and {Arrhenatherum avenaceum}, all common in parts of the United States. {To feel one's oats}, to be conceited ro self-important. [Slang] {To sow one's wild oats}, to indulge in youthful dissipation. --Thackeray. {Wild oats} (Bot.), a grass ({Avena fatua}) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats. | |
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d8Avena \[d8]A*ve"na\, n. [L.] (Bot.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat ({Avena sativa}); the oat grasses. | |
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Oat \Oat\ ([omac]t), n.; pl. {Oats} ([omac]ts). [OE. ote, ate, AS. [amac]ta, akin to Fries. oat. Of uncertain origin.] 1. (Bot.) A well-known cereal grass ({Avena sativa}), and its edible grain; -- commonly used in the plural and in a collective sense. 2. A musical pipe made of oat straw. [Obs.] --Milton. {Animated oats} or {Animal oats} (Bot.), A grass ({Avena sterilis}) much like oats, but with a long spirally twisted awn which coils and uncoils with changes of moisture, and thus gives the grains an apparently automatic motion. {Oat fowl} (Zo[94]l.), the snow bunting; -- so called from its feeding on oats. [Prov. Eng.] {Oat grass} (Bot.), the name of several grasses more or less resembling oats, as {Danthonia spicata}, {D. sericea}, and {Arrhenatherum avenaceum}, all common in parts of the United States. {To feel one's oats}, to be conceited ro self-important. [Slang] {To sow one's wild oats}, to indulge in youthful dissipation. --Thackeray. {Wild oats} (Bot.), a grass ({Avena fatua}) much resembling oats, and by some persons supposed to be the original of cultivated oats. | |
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Avenaceous \Av`e*na"ceous\, a. [L. avenaceus, fr. avena oats.] Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses. | |
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Avenage \Av"e*nage\, n. [F. avenage, fr. L. avena oats.] (Old Law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. --Jacob. | |
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Avenge \A*venge"\, v. i. To take vengeance. --Levit. xix. 18. | |
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Avenge \A*venge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Avenged} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Avenging} ([?]).] [OF. avengier; L. ad + vindicare to lay claim to, to avenge, revenge. See {Vengeance}.] 1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. --Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. --Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. --Macaulay. 2. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. [Obs.] Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies. --Bp. Hall. Syn: To {Avenge}, {Revenge}. Usage: To avenge is to inflict punishment upon evil doers in behalf of ourselves, or others for whom we act; as, to avenge one's wrongs; to avenge the injuries of the suffering and innocent. It is to inflict pain for the sake of vindication, or retributive justice. To revenge is to inflict pain or injury for the indulgence of resentful and malicious feelings. The former may at times be a duty; the latter is one of the worst exhibitions of human character. I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another. --C. J. Smith. | |
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Avenge \A*venge"\, n. Vengeance; revenge. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Avengeance \A*venge"ance\, n. Vengeance. [Obs.] | |
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Avenge \A*venge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Avenged} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Avenging} ([?]).] [OF. avengier; L. ad + vindicare to lay claim to, to avenge, revenge. See {Vengeance}.] 1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. --Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. --Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. --Macaulay. 2. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. [Obs.] Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies. --Bp. Hall. Syn: To {Avenge}, {Revenge}. Usage: To avenge is to inflict punishment upon evil doers in behalf of ourselves, or others for whom we act; as, to avenge one's wrongs; to avenge the injuries of the suffering and innocent. It is to inflict pain for the sake of vindication, or retributive justice. To revenge is to inflict pain or injury for the indulgence of resentful and malicious feelings. The former may at times be a duty; the latter is one of the worst exhibitions of human character. I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another. --C. J. Smith. | |
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Avengeful \A*venge"ful\, a. Vengeful. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Avengement \A*venge"ment\, n. The inflicting of retributive punishment; satisfaction taken. [R.] --Milton. | |
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Avenger \A*ven"ger\, n. 1. One who avenges or vindicates; as, an avenger of blood. 2. One who takes vengeance. [Obs.] --Milton. | |
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Avengeress \A*ven"ger*ess\, n. A female avenger. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Avenge \A*venge"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Avenged} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Avenging} ([?]).] [OF. avengier; L. ad + vindicare to lay claim to, to avenge, revenge. See {Vengeance}.] 1. To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer. He will avenge the blood of his servants. --Deut. xxxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. --Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. --Macaulay. 2. To treat revengefully; to wreak vengeance on. [Obs.] Thy judgment in avenging thine enemies. --Bp. Hall. Syn: To {Avenge}, {Revenge}. Usage: To avenge is to inflict punishment upon evil doers in behalf of ourselves, or others for whom we act; as, to avenge one's wrongs; to avenge the injuries of the suffering and innocent. It is to inflict pain for the sake of vindication, or retributive justice. To revenge is to inflict pain or injury for the indulgence of resentful and malicious feelings. The former may at times be a duty; the latter is one of the worst exhibitions of human character. I avenge myself upon another, or I avenge another, or I avenge a wrong. I revenge only myself, and that upon another. --C. J. Smith. | |
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Avenious \A*ve"ni*ous\, a. [Pref. a- + L. vena a vein.] (Bot.) Being without veins or nerves, as the leaves of certain plants. | |
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Avens \Av"ens\, n. [OF. avence.] (Bot.) A plant of the genus {Geum}, esp. {Geum urbanum}, or herb bennet. | |
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Avowance \A*vow"ance\, n. 1. Act of avowing; avowal. 2. Upholding; defense; vindication. [Obs.] Can my avowance of king-murdering be collected from anything here written by me? --Fuller. | |
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Avow \A*vow"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Avowed} ([?]); p. pr. & vb. n. {Avowing}.] [F. avouver, fr. L. advocare to call to (whence the meanings, to call upon as superior; recognize as lord, own, confess); ad + vocare to call. See {Advocate}, {Avouch}.] 1. To declare openly, as something believed to be right; to own or acknowledge frankly; as, a man avows his principles or his crimes. Which I to be the of Israel's God Avow, and challenge Dagon to the test. --Milton. 2. (Law) To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See {Avowry}. --Blackstone. Syn: To acknowledge; own; confess. See {Confess}. | |
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Avuncular \A*vun"cu*lar\, a. [L. avunculus uncle.] Of or pertaining to an uncle. In these rare instances, the law of pedigree, whether direct or avuncular, gives way. --I. Taylor. | |
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Abingdon, IL (city, FIPS 113) Location: 40.80260 N, 90.40066 W Population (1990): 3597 (1508 housing units) Area: 3.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61410 Abingdon, MD Zip code(s): 21009 Abingdon, VA (town, FIPS 148) Location: 36.70887 N, 81.96928 W Population (1990): 7003 (3172 housing units) Area: 21.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 24210 | |
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Abington, MA (CDP, FIPS 135) Location: 42.11740 N, 70.95907 W Population (1990): 13817 (4955 housing units) Area: 25.8 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 02351 | |
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Appanoose County, IA (county, FIPS 7) Location: 40.74121 N, 92.86883 W Population (1990): 13743 (6402 housing units) Area: 1285.4 sq km (land), 52.1 sq km (water) | |
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Avinger, TX (town, FIPS 5084) Location: 32.89816 N, 94.55426 W Population (1990): 478 (222 housing units) Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 75630 | |
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Avon Heights, PA (CDP, FIPS 3672) Location: 40.34583 N, 76.38707 W Population (1990): 2714 (803 housing units) Area: 3.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Avenger of blood (Heb. goel, from verb gaal, "to be near of kin," "to redeem"), the nearest relative of a murdered person. It was his right and duty to slay the murderer (2 Sam. 14:7, 11) if he found him outside of a city of refuge. In order that this law might be guarded against abuse, Moses appointed six cities of refuge (Ex. 21:13; Num. 35:13; Deut. 19:1,9). These were in different parts of the country, and every facility was afforded the manslayer that he might flee to the city that lay nearest him for safety. Into the city of refuge the avenger durst not follow him. This arrangement applied only to cases where the death was not premeditated. The case had to be investigated by the authorities of the city, and the wilful murderer was on no account to be spared. He was regarded as an impure and polluted person, and was delivered up to the _goel_ (Deut. 19:11-13). If the offence was merely manslaughter, then the fugitive must remain within the city till the death of the high priest (Num. 35:25). |