AVENEL 
 
 
bride in The Monastery.-Sir W. Scott, 
The Abbot (time, Elizabeth). 
  The White Lady of Avenel, a spirit mys- 
teriously connected with the Avenel fam- 
ily, as the Irish banshee is with true Mile'- 
sian families. She announces good or ill 
fortune, and manifests a general interest 
in the family to which she is attached, but 
to others she acts with considerable ca- 
price; thus she shows unmitigated maligni- 
ty to the sacristan and the robber. Any 
truly virtuous mortal has commanding 
power over her. 
         Noon gleams on the lake, 
           Noon glows on the fell; 
         Awake thee, awake, 
           White maid of Avenel! 
  Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time, Elizabeth). 
 
  Aven'ger of Blood, the man who had 
the birthright, according to the Jewish 
polity, of taking vengeance on him who 
had killed one of his relatives. 
          ... the Christless code 
      That must have life for a blow. 
                 Tennyson, Maud, II. i. 1. 
 
  Avery (Parson), a missionary "to the 
souls of fishers starving on the rocks of 
Marblehead." He is wrecked with his 
crew, one wintry midnight, and dies pray- 
ing aloud.--J. G. Whittier, The Swan Song 
of Parson Avery (1850). 
 
  Av'icen or Abou-ibn-Sina, an Arabian 
physician and philosopher, born at Shiraz, 
in Persia (980-1037). He composed a 
treatise on logic, and another on metaphys- 
ics. Avicen is called both the Hippo'- 
crates and the Aristotle of the Arabs. 
  Of physicke speake for me, king Avicen ... 
Yet was his glory never set on shelfe, 
Nor never shall, whyles any worlde may stande 
Where men have minde to take good bookes in 
    hande. 
  G. Gascoigne, The Fruits of Warre, lvii. (died 
  1577). 
 
 
  Avis, a New England girl, heroine of 
The Story of Avis, by Elizabeth Stuart 
Phelps-Ward. She is forced by genius to 
be an artist, and through her art loses hope 
of domestic happiness (1877). 
  Ayl'mer (Mrs.), a neighbor of sir Henry 
Lee.-Sir W. Scott, Woodstock (time, Com- 
monwealth). 
  Ay'mer (Prior), a jovial Benedictine 
monk, prior of Jorvaulx Abbey.-Sir W. 
Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.). 
  Ay'mon, duke of Dord6na (Dordoqne). 
He had four sons, Rinaldo, Guicciardo, 
Alardo, and Ricciardetto (i.e. Renaud, 
Guiscard, Alard, and Richard), whose ad- 
ventures are the subject of a French ro- 
mance, entitled Les Quatre fils Aymon, by 
H. de Alleneuve (1165-1223). 
  Aza'zel, one of the ginn or jinn, all of 
whom were made of "smokeless fire," that 
is, the fire of the Simoom. These jinn in- 
habited the earth before man was created, 
but on account of their persistent disobe- 
dience were driven from it by an army of 
angels. When Adam     was created, and 
God commanded all to worship him, Az&- 
zel insolently made answer, "Me hast 
Thou created of fire, and him of earth; 
why should I worship him ?" Whereupon 
God changed the jinnee into a devil, and 
called him Iblis or Despair. In hell he 
was made the standard-bearer of Satan's 
host. 
                   Upreared 
His mighty standard; that proud honor claimed 
Azftzel as his right. 
         Milton, Paradise Lost, i. 534 (1665). 
 
  Az'la, a suttee, the young widow of Ar'- 
valan, son of Keha'ma.- Southey, Curse 
of Kehama, i. 10 (1809). 
   Az'o, husband of Parisi'na. He was 
 marquis d'Este, of Ferrara, and had already 
 
 
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