Obs. [f. AVOID v.]
1. The withdrawal of dishes (after meals).
1494. Ord. R. Househ., 113. All that is dispended for … the greete avoides at feestes.
1577. Harrison, England, I. II. v. 124. They do not their mantels from them untill supper be ended, and the avoid doone.
2. Excretion, evacuation.
1502. Arnold, Chron. (1811), 150. Nott to ete nor dryncke out of noo vessel but in the same that he made hys avoid in.
