‖n. [ L. ] (Bot.) A genus of grasses, including the common oat (Avena sativa); the oat grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. avenaceus, fr. avena oats. ] Belonging to, or resembling, oats or the oat grasses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. avenage, fr. L. avena oats. ] (Old Law) A quantity of oats paid by a tenant to a landlord in lieu of rent. Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. avena eats. ] (Chem.) A crystalline globulin, contained in oat kernels, very similar in composition to excelsin, but different in reactions and crystalline form. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Capable of being convened or assembled. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. convenable, fr. convenir. See Convene. ] Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

With his wod his work is convenable. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fitness, suitableness. ] That which is suitable, agreeable, or convenient. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they missed
Their wonted convenance, cheerly hid the loss. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. covenable, F. convenable. See Covenant. ] Fit; proper; suitable. [ Obs. ] “A covenable day.” Wyclif (Mark vi. 21). [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Fitly; suitably. [ Obs. ] “Well and covenably.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. covenant, fr. F. & OF. convenir to agree, L. convenire. See Convene. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A mutual agreement of two or more persons or parties, or one of the stipulations in such an agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then Jonathan and David made a covenant. 1 Sam. xviiii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let there be covenants drawn between us. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we conclude a peace,
It shall be with such strict and severe covenants
As little shall the Frenchmen gain thereby. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) An agreement made by the Scottish Parliament in 1638, and by the English Parliament in 1643, to preserve the reformed religion in Scotland, and to extirpate popery and prelacy; -- usually called the “Solemn League and Covenant.” [ 1913 Webster ]

He [ Wharton ] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Theol.) The promises of God as revealed in the Scriptures, conditioned on certain terms on the part of man, as obedience, repentance, faith, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. Gen. xvii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A solemn compact between members of a church to maintain its faith, discipline, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) (a) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement. (b) A form of action for the violation of a promise or contract under seal.

Syn. -- Agreement; contract; compact; bargain; arrangement; stipulation. -- Covenant, Contract, Compact, Stipulation. These words all denote a mutual agreement between two parties. Covenant is frequently used in a religious sense; as, the covenant of works or of grace; a church covenant; the Solemn League and Covenant. Contract is the word most used in the business of life. Crabb and Taylor are wrong in saying that a contract must always be in writing. There are oral and implied contracts as well as written ones, and these are equally enforced by law. In legal usage, the word covenant has an important place as connected with contracts. A compact is only a stronger and more solemn contract. The term is chiefly applied to political alliances. Thus, the old Confederation was a compact between the States. Under the present Federal Constitution, no individual State can, without consent of Congress, enter into a compact with any other State or foreign power. A stipulation is one of the articles or provisions of a contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Covenanted; p. pr. & vb. n. Covenanting. ] To agree (with); to enter into a formal agreement; to bind one's self by contract; to make a stipulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jupiter covenanted with him, that it should be hot or cold, wet or dry, . . . as the tenant should direct. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

And they covenanted with him for thyrty pieces of silver. Matt. xxvi. 15.

Syn. -- To agree; contract; bargain; stipulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To grant or promise by covenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

My covenant of peace that I covenanted with you. Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The person in whose favor a covenant is made. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who makes a covenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) One who subscribed and defended the “Solemn League and Covenant.” See Covenant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be they covenanting traitors,
Or the brood of false Argyle? Aytoun. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) The party who makes a covenant. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dissolve covenant with. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. extra- + L. vena vein. ] Let out of the veins. [ Obs. ] “Extravenate blood.” Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Harbor dues; port dues. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. juvenalis youthful, juvenile, fr. juvenis young. ] A youth. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. novenarius, from novem nine. ] Of or pertaining to the number nine. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The number of nine units; nine, collectively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. prévenance. ] (Metaph.) A going before; anticipation in sequence or order. “The law of prevenance is simply the well-known law of phenomenal sequence.” Ward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of anticipating another's wishes, desires, etc., in the way of favor or courtesy; hence, civility; obligingness. [ Obs. ] Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. provenir to originate, to come forth, L. provenire. Cf. Provenience. ] Origin; source; provenience.

Their age attested by their provenance and associations. A. H. Keane. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. [ Malagasy. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants related to the banana. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and retain rain water, which flows freely when they are pierced with a knife, whence the plant is called traveler's tree. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- re- + L. juventis young, youthful. ] To render young again. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. from Rejuvenate. 1. Rendered young again; as, rejuvenated life. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Phys. Geog.) (a) Stimulated by uplift to renewed erosive activity; -- said of streams. (b) Developed with steep slopes inside a district previously worn down nearly to base level; -- said of topography, or features of topography, as valleys, hills, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Rejuvenescence. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. souvenance. ] Remembrance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Of his way he had no sovenance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not covenable; inconvenient. [ Obs. ] Wyclif (1 Tim. iv. 7). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not covenanted; not granted or entered into under a covenant, agreement, or contract. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not having joined in a league, or assented to a covenant or agreement, as to the Solemn League and Covenant of the Scottish people in the times of the Stuarts. [ 1913 Webster ]

In Scotland a few fanatical nonjurors may have grudged their allegiance to an uncovenanted king. Sir T. E. May. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Theol.) Not having entered into relationship with God through the appointed means of grace; also, not promised or assured by the divine promises or conditions; as, uncovenanted mercies. [ 1913 Webster ]

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‖n.; pl. Venae [ L. See Vein. ] A vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vena cava; pl. Venae cavae. [ L., literally, hollow vein. ] (Anat.) Any one of the great systemic veins connected directly with the heart.--
Vena contracta. [ L., literally, contracted vein. ] (Hydraulics) The contracted portion of a liquid jet at and near the orifice from which it issues. --
Vena portae; pl. Venae portae. [ L., literally, vein of the entrance. ] (Anat.) The portal vein of the liver. See under Portal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sp. venado a deer, stag. ] (Zool.) The pudu. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. vena a vein. ] Of or pertaining to veins; venous; as, venal blood. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. venalis, from venus sale; akin to Gr. 'w^nos price, Skr. vasna: cf. F. vénal. ] Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration; made matter of trade or barter; held for sale; salable; mercenary; purchasable; hireling; as, venal services. “ Paid court to venal beauties.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The venal cry and prepared vote of a passive senate. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Mercenary; hireling; vendible. -- Venal, Mercenary. One is mercenary who is either actually a hireling (as, mercenary soldiers, a mercenary judge, etc.), or is governed by a sordid love of gain; hence, we speak of mercenary motives, a mercenary marriage, etc. Venal goes further, and supposes either an actual purchase, or a readiness to be purchased, which places a person or thing wholly in the power of the purchaser; as, a venal press. Brissot played ingeniously on the latter word in his celebrated saying, “ My pen is venal that it may not be mercenary, ” meaning that he wrote books, and sold them to the publishers, in order to avoid the necessity of being the hireling of any political party. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus needy wits a vile revenue made,
And verse became a mercenary trade. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse
This, from no venal or ungrateful muse. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. venalitas: cf. F. vénalité. ] The quality or state of being venal, or purchasable; mercenariness; prostitution of talents, offices, or services, for money or reward; as, the venality of a corrupt court; the venality of an official. [ 1913 Webster ]

Complaints of Roman venality became louder. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a venal manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. venans, p. pr. of venari to hunt. ] (Zool.) The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. venarius, fr. L. venari, p. p. venatus, to hunt. ] Of or, pertaining to hunting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Vinatico. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. venaticus, fr. venatus hunting, fr. venari, p. p. venatus, to hunt. ] Of or pertaining to hunting; used in hunting. [ R. ] “ Venatical pleasure.” Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. vena a vein. ] The arrangement or system of veins, as in the wing of an insect, or in the leaves of a plant. See Illust. in Appendix. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. venatio, fr. venari, p. p. venatus, to hunt. See Venison. ] The act or art of hunting, or the state of being hunted. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. venatorius. ] Or or pertaining to hunting; venatic. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]