AVENTINE
Av"en*tine, n.
Defn: A post of security or defense. [Poetic]
Into the castle's tower, The only Aventine that now is left him.
Beau. & Fl.
AVENTRE
A*ven"tre, v. t.
Defn: To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. [Obs.] Spenser.
AVENTURE
A*ven"ture, n. Etym: [See Adventure, n.]
1. Accident; chance; adventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Old Law)
Defn: A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
AVENTURINE
A*ven"tu*rine, n. Etym: [F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino.]
1. A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.