Avenue

[Fr., from à, to, and venir, to come; Lat. ad, and venio, to come.] An opening, entrance, or pa age, by which anything may be introduced. The term is also used in landscape-gardening, in order to distinguish the path leading from some other road, and forming the direct approach to a house. Any broad walk or road, bordered on either side by trees, is also called an A. In the latter case, the trees may be either in rows or on the sides, or in clumps at some distance from one another. The trees mostly used in England for avenues are the English elm, the lime, the horse-chestnut, the common chestnut, and the beech. A broad, straight street is also called an A. in most of the principal cities of the U. States; as Fifth Avenue in New York. Aven'zoar, or, to give his complete name, ABU-MERWANMOHAMMED-BEN-ABDALMALEC-BEN-ZOHAR. An Arabian physician of the 12th century, born at Seville, in Spain, where his father practised medicine. He became eminent in his profe ion, travelled much, and pa ed through many adventures, among which was a long imprisonment at Seville. He had the care of an hospital, and composed a work entitled Al The i ser , containing a compendium of medical practice, and including many facts and observations not found in preceding writers, which were probably the result of his own experience. He died at Morocco, in 1169. The report of his having lived to the age of 135 is probably an error arising from his having been confounded with his son, of the same name and profe ion, who lived at Morocco, and was the author of a treatise on the regimen of health. Aver', v . a . [Fr. avérer , from Lat. ver us , true.] To declare to be true; to affirm confidently; to declare positively; to a ert. y el, 21 m. E.N.E. of Kampen; pop . about 4,000. Averill, in Vermont , a township of E ex co., 35 m. N. by E. of Guildhall.