These are the meanings of the letters ACTOVAE when you unscramble them.
- Avocet (n.)
Alt. of Avoset
- Caveat (n.)
A description of some invention, designed to be patented, lodged in the patent office before the patent right is applied for, and operating as a bar to the issue of letters patent to any other person, respecting the same invention.
- Caveat (n.)
A notice given by an interested party to some officer not to do a certain act until the party is heard in opposition; as, a caveat entered in a probate court to stop the proving of a will or the taking out of letters of administration, etc.
- Caveat (n.)
Intimation of caution; warning; protest.
- Octave (a.)
Consisting of eight; eight.
- Octave (n.)
A small cask of wine, the eighth part of a pipe.
- Octave (n.)
The eighth day after a church festival, the festival day being included; also, the week following a church festival.
- Octave (n.)
The eighth tone in the scale; the interval between one and eight of the scale, or any interval of equal length; an interval of five tones and two semitones.
- Octave (n.)
The first two stanzas of a sonnet, consisting of four verses each; a stanza of eight lines.
- Octave (n.)
The whole diatonic scale itself.
- Vacate (v. t.)
To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause.
- Vacate (v. t.)
To defeat; to put an end to.
- Vacate (v. t.)
To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.