Avail(n.) Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.
Avail(n.) Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.
Avail(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.
Avail(v. t.) To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
Avail(v. t.) To promote; to assist.
Avail(v. t. & i.) See Avale, v.
Availabilities(pl. ) of Availability
Availability(n.) The quality of being available; availableness.
Availability(n.) That which is available.
Available(a.) Having sufficient power, force, or efficacy, for the object; effectual; valid; as, an available plea.
Available(a.) Such as one may avail one's self of; capable of being used for the accomplishment of a purpose; usable; profitable; advantageous; convertible into a resource; as, an available measure; an available candidate.
Availableness(n.) Competent power; validity; efficacy; as, the availableness of a title.
Availableness(n.) Quality of being available; capability of being used for the purpose intended.
Availed(imp. & p. p.) of Avail
Availing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Avail
Availment(n.) Profit; advantage.
Words within availer