Defn: To form, or exist in, a mean or medial sum or quantity; to amount to, or to be, on an ~; as, the losses of the owners will average twenty five dollars each; these spars average ten feet in length.
AVERCORN
A"ver*corn`, n. Etym: [Aver,n.+ corn.] (Old Eng. Law)
Defn: A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet.
AVERMENT A*ver"ment, n. Etym: [Cf. OF. averement, LL. averamentum. See Aver, v. t.]
1. The act of averring, or that which is averred; affirmation; positive assertion. Signally has this averment received illustration in the course of recent events. I. Taylor.
2. Verification; establishment by evidence. Bacon.
3. (Law)
Defn: A positive statement of facts; an allegation; an offer to justify or prove what is alleged.
Note: In any stage of pleadings, when either party advances new matter, he avers it to be true, by using this form of words: "and this he is ready to verify." This was formerly called an averment. It modern pleading, it is termed a verification. Blackstone.
AVERNAL; AVERNIAN
A*ver"nal, A*ver"ni*an, a.