Into the castle's tower,
The only Aventine that now is left him.
Beau. & Fl.
A*ven"tre (&?;), v. t. To thrust forward (at a venture), as a spear. [Obs.] Spenser.
A*ven"ture (?; 135), n. [See Adventure, n.] 1. Accident; chance; adventure. [Obs.] Chaucer.
2. (Old Law) A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire.
A*ven"tu*rine (&?;), n. [F. aventurine: cf. It. avventurino.] 1. A kind of glass, containing gold-colored spangles. It was produced in the first place by the accidental (par aventure) dropping of some brass filings into a pot of melted glass.
2. (Min.) A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica.
Aventurine feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.
Av"e*nue (&?;), 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.
On every side were expanding new avenues of inquiry.
Milman.
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 The principal walk or approach to a house which is withdrawn from the road, especially, such approach bordered on each side by trees; any broad passageway thus bordered.
An avenue of tall elms and branching chestnuts.
W. Black.