Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fermented drink used in the South Sea islands, made from the roots of the Piper methysticum.
- noun A name of the topaz hummingbird
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
kava .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Alternative form of
kava .
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Examples
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Ars Poetica, the whilk Mr Graham says is no its richt name ava, but jist Epistola ad Pisones; for gien they bude to gie 't anither it sud ha 'been Ars Dramatica.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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There was also offered to them a beverage named ava, which is intoxicating in its nature, and very disgusting in its preparation.
Sunk at Sea 1859
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The ava is a plant more injurious than useful to the inhabitants of these isles; since they only make use of it to obtain a dangerous and intoxicating drink, which they also call ava.
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Whydooah, the younger brother of Tinah, was highly spoken of as a warrior but had the character of being the greatest drunkard in the country; and indeed to judge from the withered appearance of his skin he must have used the pernicious drink called ava to great excess.
A Voyage to the South Sea For The Purpose Of Conveying The Bread-Fruit Tree To The West Indies, Including An Account Of The Mutiny On Board The Ship William Bligh 1785
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On Wednesday, Yahoo showed off some very nice user experience tweaks - try typing "ava" into the Yahoo Finance search box - but there was no big product for reporters to latch onto, leading only to questions about how Yahoo can remain a player in search.
Wired Top Stories 2010
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On Wednesday, Yahoo showed off some very nice user experience tweaks - try typing "ava" into the Yahoo Finance search box - but there was no big product for reporters to latch onto, leading only to questions about how Yahoo can remain a player in search.
Wired Top Stories Ryan Singel 2010
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.but didn't! how identical the tone of "ava" and whoever else was..really really read like the same person.
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"tṛi," passing over, and with the prefix which is added, the "ava," you get the idea of descent, one who descends.
Avatâras Four lectures delivered at the twenty-fourth anniversary meeting of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras, December, 1899 Annie Wood Besant 1890
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a gi'en gift's yer ain, to du wi 'what ye like; an' I wad na heed man, no to say a cratur 'at belangs richtly to nae warl' ava ',' at wad play the bairn, an 'want back what he had gi'en.
Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864
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More than 9,000 National Academies Reports now ava ...
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The schools share the name Yamhill-Carlton, and the entire area is deemed an AVA — an “American Viticultural Area” — for the loamy soil that allows grapes to flourish here.
How a trail in rural Oregon became a target of far-right extremism Leah Sottile 2023
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