† avalingn.
Obsolete.
Descending, descent; declivity.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun]
avalingc1380
descendinga1382
downcominga1398
lowinga1398
descenta1413
descencec1425
descensionc1425
degression1486
downcomea1522
downstroke1551
decourse1585
vailinga1593
nod1597
delapsion1603
delapse1625
down1647
fall1647
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 984 At aualyng of an hulle þe frensche han þey of-take.
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes (1544) i. i. 1 b Rivers..In their upspringing and avayling down.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. xviii. 23 They..ordeyned iii. great battelles, in the auaylynge of the hyll.
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