avenue (avenu)

[Formerly also advenue, avenew, Good guards were set up at all the avenues of the city, to keep all people from going out. Clarendon. 2. A roadway of approach to a country-house, particularly when straight, of considerable length, and shaded by a row of trees on each side; a drive in a private country-place; a walk in a garden or demain of some pretensions as to style or size. A long avenue wound and circled from the outermost gate through an untrimmed woodland. H. James, Jr., Pa . Pilgrim, p. 45. 3. A street; properly, a wide street planted with trees and often with turfed spaces on either side, or a garden or shaded promenade in the middle: used in New York, Washington, etc., in the names of the longest and generally the widest streets, as Fifth or Pennsylvania Avenue, but in some American cities without special reference to the character of the street. -4. Figuratively, means of acce or attain ment. There are no avenues to the public service opened for talent. Brougham . aver1 (a-ver'), v. t.; pret. and pp. averred, ppr. averring. [Early mod. E. also averr, Pr. averar = It. avverare, And I aver that, to this day, I have done no official act in mere deference to my abstract judgment and feeling on slavery. Lincoln , in Raymond, p. 481. 4. In law, to avouch or verify; offer to verify; allege as a fact. See averment.-5. To a ert the existence of; offer in evidence. [Archaic.] Averring notes Of chamber-hangings, pictures, this her bracelet. Shak ., Cymbeline, v. 5. =Syn. 3. Affirm, Declare, etc. (see a ert ), say, allege, protest, insist, maintain.