avorter, v.n., to miscarry; to slip; to prove abortive; to fail. Faire —; to cause or procure abortion. Ce dessein avorta; that plan failed. Faire — les desseins de quelqu’un; to baffle any one’s designs.
avorton, n.m., abortion; abortive child. (fig.) Un — de mouche; a wretched, paltry, miserable fly.
avouable, adj., avowable.
avoué, n.m., attorney; solicitor. Une étude d’—; a solicitor’s office.
avouer, v.a., to confess, to avow; to own, to acknowledge, to declare openly, to grant, to allow; to approve. Il a avoué le fait; he has confessed the deed. Il avoue l’avoir fait; he confesses to it. S’— vaincu; to own one’s self vanquished. J’étais, je l’avoue, un peu confus; I was rather confused, I must allow. — un enfant; to acknowledge a child. J’avouerai tout ce qu’il fera; I will approve of all he does.
avoyer, n.m., avoyer (Swiss magistrate).
*avril, n.m., April. Donner un poisson d’— à quelqu’un; to make any one an April-fool. Recevoir un poisson d’—; to be made an April-fool. Poisson d’—; mackerel.
avrillé, -e, adj., sown in April.
avron, n.m., (bot.) wild oats.
avuer, v.a., (hunt.) to mark down, to mark in.