n. [ F. avenue, fr. avenir to come to, L. advenire. See Advene. ] 1. A way or opening for entrance into a place; a passage by which a place may by reached; a way of approach or of exit. “The avenues leading to the city by land.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered. [ 1913 Webster ]

An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A broad street; as, the Fifth Avenue in New York. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. devenustatus, p. p. of devenustare to disfigure; de + venustus lovely, graceful. ] To deprive of beauty or grace. [ Obs. ]

n. [ See Intervene, Avenue. ] Interposition. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prop. p. p. of parvenir to attain to, to succeed, to rise to high station, L. pervenire to come to; per through + venire to come. See Par, prep., and Come. ] An upstart; a man newly risen into notice. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. revenu, OF. revenue, fr. revenir to return, L. revenire; pref. re- re- + venire to come. See Come. ] 1. That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do not anticipate your revenues and live upon air till you know what you are worth. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, return; reward; as, a revenue of praise. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use. [ 1913 Webster ]

Revenue cutter, an armed government vessel employed to enforce revenue laws, prevent smuggling, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. See Survene. ] A sudden or unexpected coming or stepping on. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not furnished with a revenue. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. venue a coming, arrival, fr. venir to come, L. venire; hence, in English, the place whither the jury are summoned to come. See Come, and cf. Venew, Veney. ] 1. (Law) A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid. [ 1913 Webster ]

The twelve men who are to try the cause must be of the same venue where the demand is made. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In certain cases, the court has power to change the venue, which is to direct the trial to be had in a different county from that where the venue is laid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bout; a hit; a turn. See Venew. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To lay a venue (Law), to allege a place. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. venula, dim. from vena vein. ] A small vein; a veinlet; specifically (Zool.), one of the small branches of the veins of the wings in insects. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of venules, or small veins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. Venus, -eris, the goddess of love, the planet Venus. ] 1. (Class. Myth.) The goddess of beauty and love, that is, beauty or love deified. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) One of the planets, the second in order from the sun, its orbit lying between that of Mercury and that of the Earth, at a mean distance from the sun of about 67, 000, 000 miles. Its diameter is 7, 700 miles, and its sidereal period 224.7 days. As the morning star, it was called by the ancients Lucifer; as the evening star, Hesperus. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Alchem.) The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Venus or family Veneridae. Many of these shells are large, and ornamented with beautiful frills; others are smooth, glossy, and handsomely colored. Some of the larger species, as the round clam, or quahog, are valued for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

Venus's basin (Bot.), the wild teasel; -- so called because the connate leaf bases form a kind of receptacle for water, which was formerly gathered for use in the toilet. Also called Venus's bath. --
Venus's basket (Zool.), an elegant, cornucopia-shaped, hexactinellid sponge (Euplectella speciosa) native of the East Indies. It consists of glassy, transparent, siliceous fibers interwoven and soldered together so as to form a firm network, and has long, slender, divergent anchoring fibers at the base by means of which it stands erect in the soft mud at the bottom of the sea. Called also Venus's flower basket, and Venus's purse. --
Venus's comb. (a) (Bot.) Same as Lady's comb. (b) (Zool.) A species of Murex (Murex tenuispinus). It has a long, tubular canal, with a row of long, slender spines along both of its borders, and rows of similar spines covering the body of the shell. Called also Venus's shell. --
Venus's fan (Zool.), a common reticulated, fanshaped gorgonia (Gorgonia flabellum) native of Florida and the West Indies. When fresh the color is purple or yellow, or a mixture of the two. --
Venus's flytrap. (Bot.) See Flytrap, 2. --
Venus's girdle (Zool.), a long, flat, ribbonlike, very delicate, transparent and iridescent ctenophore (Cestum Veneris) which swims in the open sea. Its form is due to the enormous development of two spheromeres. See Illust. in Appendix. --
Venus's hair (Bot.), a delicate and graceful fern (Adiantum Capillus-Veneris) having a slender, black and shining stem and branches. --
Venus's hair stone (Min.), quartz penetrated by acicular crystals of rutile. --
Venus's looking-glass (Bot.), an annual plant of the genus Specularia allied to the bellflower; -- also called lady's looking-glass. --
Venus's navelwort (Bot.), any one of several species of Omphalodes, low boraginaceous herbs with small blue or white flowers. --
Venus's pride (Bot.), an old name for Quaker ladies. See under Quaker. --
Venus's purse. (Zool.) Same as Venus's basket, above. --
Venus's shell. (Zool.) (a) Any species of Cypraea; a cowrie. (b) Same as Venus's comb, above. (c) Same as Venus, 4. --
Venus's slipper. (a) (Bot.) Any plant of the genus Cypripedium. See Lady's slipper. (b) (Zool.) Any heteropod shell of the genus Carinaria. See Carinaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. [ L. venustus, from Venus the goddess of love. ] Beautiful. [ R. ] E. Waterhouse. [ 1913 Webster ]