Bible Dictionaries
Avowry

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) An advocate; a patron; a patron saint.

(2):

(n.) The act of the distrainer of goods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Avowry'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​a/avowry.html. 1828.