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1. avail(e n.

Additional spellings: availe
68 quotations in 5 senses
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(a) Benefit, advantage, profit; ben avail, to be useful or effective; ben litel avail, to be of little value; (b) of persons: worthiness. …

2. scarmuch(e n.

Additional spellings: scarmuche
18 quotations in 1 sense
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Mil. An engagement between small bodies of soldiers, a skirmish; a battle; an encounter between besieging and besieged forces; also, the manner of fighting characteristic of a skirmish. …

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