[f. as prec. + -ING2.] Advantageous, profitable; of beneficial efficiency.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., I. 562. To faat hem is avayling and plesaunte.
1850. Mrs. Browning, Substitution, Poems I. 327. Speak Thou, availing Christ!
1862. Ruskin, Unto this Last, 118. A truly valuable or availing thing is that which leads to life with its whole strength.
