[Fictionary] Aver, n. Ballot! Please vote asap.

[lindafowens at netzero.net]

FICTIONARY  “AVER, n”  BALLOT    March 9, 2009
Here you go, Fictioneers!  Vote your twos and ones for your favorites.  Votes due on late Monday, March 16th. I would give you a few more days, but then you wouldn’t enjoy St. Patty’s Day as much.  Around here, where there is a large Irish population, the drinking starts early, and for fear of drunk drivers, I stay off the road for a while.  Good luck!   Linda, Defmeister      PS  Poems and jokes welcome as tiebreakers or for fun.  PPS  Corned beef and cabbage dinners with Irish soda bread=my celebration.
1)      Aver, n.  (a-VER, from Middle-English).  Hatred.
2)      Aver, n.  [‘ei  vur].  Suicide; also lunatic, madman.  From the French aviseur, lit. ‘bird man’; refers to the very earliest attempts at heavier-than-air flight when men would throw themselves from high hills or buildings with their hand-made wings, and inevitably plummet to their deaths.
3)      Aver, n.  [‘Ã: vÉš—supposed to be a ˘ over the s but I can’t find it-L], [‘a: fÉ plus a tall skinny box that my machine is lacking-L].  (Dutch haver, oats)  A Dutch beer made with oats, which can’t be labeled “Bier” in Germany because of the German beer law.  [The colon is actually two apostrophes, not available among my symbols—L]
4)      Aver, n.  Ay-ver.  (fr. Med. Latin haberius)-the night watchman at a cemetery.
5)      Aver, n.  (åv’ r).  The large log placed atop a May Day bonfire.
6)      Aver, n.  /É ™ËˆvÉ<ɹ/, fm. OE wÃ:r.  [The colon is actually two apostrophes not available in my symbols--L].  “prudent, prepared”. 1) An unfortunate or disappointing discovery.  2) A coin found tails-side up, considered bad luck in some Euro-American subcultures.
7)      Aver, n.  (AH-vur, AH-vuh).  A daily prayer.  (American Catholic schools, from -ave maria-)  “Have you done your avers yet?”
8)      Aver, n. (&#257;’ ver—there is supposed to be a squiggle ~over the e, but I could not find one-L).  [OFr., from L habere, to have.]  In England, a horse or ox when used as a beast of burden.  [Obs.]
9)      Aver, n.  (ah’-vay-er). (slang)  A Catholic who insists on praying in Latin and rejects the reforms of Vatican II.  (From “Ave Maria”).
10)   Aver, n.  (pronounced “ahveyer”) –slang term describing a person who frequently says the rosary.
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