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_Aunter_ is used by Chaucer and Gower in a neuter sense.

V. ~Anter~, _v._

AUNTER, _s._ Adventure; O. E. _antre_, R. Brunne.

_Sir Gawan and Sir Gal._

Fr. _aventure_, _auenture_, abbreviated.

AUNTEROUS, _adj._ Adventurous.

_Gl. Sibb._

O. Fr. _aventureux_, hasarde; L. B. _adventor-ius_; Gl. Roquefort.

_To_ AVOKE, _v. a._ To call away, to keep off.

Lat. _avoc-are_.

_Baillie._

AVOUTERIE, ADVOUTERIE, _s._ Adultery.

_Gl. Sibb._

O. Fr. _avoutrie_; Ital. _avolteria_; Lat. _adulter-ium_; Teut.

_vouter-en_, fornicare, camerare.

AVOW, AVOWE, _s._

1. A vow; used in the same sense by Chaucer.

_Douglas._

2. Discovery, declaration; in modern language, avowal.

_Minstrelsy Bord._

Fr. _avou-er_, to confess.

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