average (age = ig)

t. & i. [From aver age, s. (q.v.).] A. Transitive : 1. To ascertain or state a mean proportional between different numbers. 2. To divide an ascertained lo in just proportions among the several individuals on whom it should fall. B. Intransitive (as a copula or apposition verb): To be on an average, to amount to, when a mean proportional between certain given numbers is ascertained. "Of this total the properties [in France) averaging 600 acres numbered 50,000, and those averaging 60 acres 500,000..."- Statesman's Year- Book (1875), p. 80.