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Webster 1913 Edition


Avale

A-vale′

,
Verb.
T.
&
I.
[F.
avaler
to descend, to let down. See
Avalanche
.]
1.
To cause to descend; to lower; to let fall; to doff.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
2.
To bring low; to abase.
[Obs.]
Sir H. Wotton.
3.
(v. i.)
To descend; to fall; to dismount.
[Obs.]
And from their sweaty courses did
avale
.
Spenser.