Avail

To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.

To promote; to assist.

To be of use or advantage; to answer the purpose; to have strength, force, or efficacy sufficient to accomplish the object; as, the plea in bar must avail, that is, be sufficient to defeat the suit; this scheme will not avail; medicines will not avail to check the disease.

Profit; advantage toward success; benefit; value; as, labor, without economy, is of little avail.

Proceeds; as, the avails of a sale by auction.

See Avale, v.

a means of serving; "of no avail"; "there's no help for it"