a. rare. [f. prec. + -INE.] Of the nature of, or like, an avalanche.
1847. Tait’s Mag., XIV. 684/2. Huge fragments of rock, which roll with more than avalanchine grandeur down into the excavations it forms below.
1850. W. Gaspey, Doom Creat., in Lyr. & Med., 29.
| Crushed are the seats of early state | |
| ’Neath Ruin’s avalanchine weight. |
