(not comparable) Constituting or relating to the average. / Neither very good nor very bad; rated somewhere in the middle of all others in the same category. / Typical.

(transitive) To compute the average of, especially the arithmetic mean. / (transitive) Over a period of time or across members of a population, to have or generate a mean value of.

(UK, law, obsolete) The service that a tenant owed his lord, to be done by the animals of the tenant, such as the transportation of wheat, turf, etc.

(law, obsolete) Money paid by a tenant in lieu of the service of average.

Of or pertaining to Avernus, a lake of Campania, in Italy, famous for its poisonous vapors, which ancient writers fancied were so malignant as to kill birds flying over it. It was represented by the poets to be connected with the infernal regions.

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers.

Having a repugnance or opposition of mind. / Turned away or backward. / (obsolete) Lying on the opposite side (to or from). / (heraldry) Turned so as to show the back, as of a right hand.

(transitive, obsolete, rare) To turn away.

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning. / An object of dislike or repugnance. / (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

(transitive) To turn aside or away. / (transitive) To ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of. / (intransitive, archaic) To turn away.