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- Average - n. - 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.
- Average - n. - A tariff or duty on goods, etc.
- Average - n. - Any charge in addition to the regular charge for freight of goods shipped.
- Average - n. - A contribution to a loss or charge which has been imposed upon one of several for the general benefit; damage done by sea perils.
- Average - n. - The equitable and proportionate distribution of loss or expense among all interested.
- Average - n. - 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.
- Average - n. - Any medial estimate or general statement derived from a comparison of diverse specific cases; a medium or usual size, quantity, quality, rate, etc.
- Average - n. - In the English corn trade, the medial price of the several kinds of grain in the principal corn markets.
- Average - a. - 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.
- Average - a. - According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
- Average - v. t. - To find the mean of, when sums or quantities are unequal; to reduce to a mean.
- Average - v. t. - To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
- Average - v. t. - To do, accomplish, get, etc., on an average.
- Average - 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.
- Averaged - imp. & p. p. - of Average
- Diminutive - a. - Below the average size; very small; little.
- Level - n. - A uniform or average height; a normal plane or altitude; a condition conformable to natural law or which will secure a level surface; as, moving fluids seek a level.
- Average - a. - According to the laws of averages; as, the loss must be made good by average contribution.
- Average - a. - 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.
- Generation - n. - A single step or stage in the succession of natural descent; a rank or remove in genealogy. Hence: The body of those who are of the same genealogical rank or remove from an ancestor; the mass of beings living at one period; also, the average lifetime of man, or the ordinary period of time at which one rank follows another, or father is succeeded by child, usually assumed to be one third of a century; an age.
- Drachma - n. - A silver coin among the ancient Greeks, having a different value in different States and at different periods. The average value of the Attic drachma is computed to have been about 19 cents.
- Rainfall - n. - A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region.
- Average - 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.
- Lunation - n. - The period of a synodic revolution of the moon, or the time from one new moon to the next; varying in length, at different times, from about 29/ to 29/ days, the average length being 29 d., 12h., 44m., 2.9s.
- Average - n. - 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.
- Average - v. t. - To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.
- Grain - n. - The unit of the English system of weights; -- so called because considered equal to the average of grains taken from the middle of the ears of wheat. 7,000 grains constitute the pound avoirdupois, and 5,760 grains the pound troy. A grain is equal to .0648 gram. See Gram.
- Toman - n. - A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly at different times and places. Its average value may be reckoned at about two and a half dollars.