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Aft
'AFT, adjective or adverb
In seaman's language, a word used to denote the stern or what pertains to the stern of a ship; as, the aft part of the ship; haul aft the main sheet, that is, further towards the stern. Fore and aft is the whole length of a ship. Right aft is in a direct line with the stern.
After
'AFTER, adjective [The comparative degree of aft. But is some Teutonic dialects it is written with g.]
1. In marine language, more aft, or towards the stern of the ship; as, the after sails; after hatchway.
2. In common language, later in time; as, an after period of life.
In this sense, the word is often combined with the following noun; as in afternoon.
'AFTER, preposition
1. Behind in place; as, men placed in a line one after another.
2. Later in time; as, after supper. This word often precedes a sentence, as a governing preposition.
After I have arisen, I will go before you into Galilee. Math. 26.
3. In pursuit of, that is, moving behind, following; in search of.
After whom is the king of Israel come out? .
Ye shall not go after other Gods. .
4. In imitation of; as, to make a thing after a model.
5. According to; as, consider a thing after its intrinsic value.
6. According to the direction and influence of.
To walk after the flesh; to live after the flesh. .
To judge after the sight of the eye. .
To inquire after is to seek by asking; to ask concerning.
To follow after in scripture, is to pursue, or imitate; to serve, or worship.
AFTER, adverb Posterior; later in time; as, it was about the space of three hours after In this sense, the word, however, is really a preposition, the object being understood; about three hours after the time or fact before specified.
After is prefixed to many words, forming compounds, but retaining its genuine signification. Some of the following words are of this kind, but in some of them after seems rather to be a separate word.
After-Account
'AFTER-ACCOUNT, noun A subsequent reckoning.
After-Act
'AFTER-ACT, noun A subsequent act.
After-Ages
'AFTER-AGES, noun Later ages; succeeding times. After-age, in the singular, is not improper.
'AFTER ALL, is a phrase, signifying, when all has been considered, said or done; at last; in the final result.
After-Band
'AFTER-BAND, noun A future band.
After-Birth
'AFTER-BIRTH, noun The appendages of the fetus, called also secundines.
After-Clap
'AFTER-CLAP, noun An unexpected, subsequent event; something happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
After-Comer
'AFTER-COMER, noun A successor.
After-Comfort
'AFTER-COMFORT, noun Future comfort
After-Conduct
'AFTER-CONDUCT, noun Subsequent behavior.
After-Conviction
'AFTER-CONVIC'TION, n Future conviction.
After-Cost
'AFTER-COST, noun Later cost; expense after the execution of the main design.
After-Course
'AFTER-COURSE, noun Future course.
After-Crop
'AFTER-CROP, noun The second crop in the same year.
After-Days
'AFTER-DAYS, noun Future days.
After-Eatage
'AFTER-EATAGE, noun Part of the increase of the same year. [Local.]
After-Endeavor
'AFTER-ENDEAV'OR, noun An endeavor after the first or former effort.
After-Game
'AFTER-GAME, noun A subsequent scheme, or expedient.
After-Guard
'AFTER-GUARD, noun The seaman stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after sails.
After-Hope
'AFTER-HOPE, noun Future hope.
After-Hours
'AFTER-HOURS, noun Hours that follow; time following.
After-Ignorance
'AFTER-IGNORANCE, noun Subsequent ignorance.
After-King
'AFTER-KING, noun A succeeding king.
After-Life
'AFTER-LIFE, noun
1. Future life or the life after this.
2. A later period of life; subsequent life.
After-Liver
'AFTER-LIVER, noun One who lives in succeeding times.
After-Love
'AFTER-LOVE, noun The second or later love.
After-Malice
'AFTER-MALICE, noun Succeeding malice.
After-Math
'AFTER-MATH, noun [after and math. See Mow.]
A second crop of grass, in the same season; rowen.
After-Most
'AFTER-MOST, adjective superlative In marine language, nearest the stern, opposed to foremost; also hindmost.
After-Noon
'AFTER-NOON', noun The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.
After-Pains
'AFTER-PAINS, noun The pains which succeed child birth.
After-Part
'AFTER-PART, noun The latter part. In marine language, the part of a ship towards the stern.
After-Piece
'AFTER-PIECE, noun A piece performed after a play; a farce or other entertainment.
After-Proof
'AFTER-PROOF, noun Subsequent proof or evidence; qualities known by subsequent experience.
After-Repentance
'AFTER-REPENT'ANCE, noun Subsequent repentance.
After-Report
'AFTER-REPORT, noun Subsequent report, or information.
After-Sails
'AFTER-SAILS, noun The sails on the mizzenmast and stays, between the main and mizzen-masts.
After-State
'AFTER-STATE, noun The future state.
After-Sting
'AFTER-STING, noun Subsequent sting.
After-Storm
'AFTER-STORM, noun A succeeding or future storm.
After-Supper
'AFTER-SUPPER, noun The time between supper and going to bed.
After-Swarm
'AFTER-SWARM, noun A swarm of bees which leaves the hive after the first.
After-Taste
'AFTER-TASTE, noun A taste which succeeds eating and drinking.
After-Thought
'AFTER-THOUGHT, noun [See Thought.] Reflections after an act; later thought, or expedient occurring too late.
After-Times
'AFTER-TIMES, noun Succeeding times. It may be used in the singular.
After-Tossing
'AFTER-TOSSING, noun The swell or agitation of the sea after a storm.
After-Wise
'AFTER-WISE, adjective Wise afterwards or too late.
After-Wit
'AFTER-WIT, noun Subsequent wit; wisdom that comes too late.
After-Wrath
'AFTER-WRATH, noun Later wrath; anger after the provocation has ceased.
After-Writer
'AFTER-WRITER, noun A succeeding writer.
Afterward
'AFTERWARD, or 'AFTERWARDS, adverb [See Ward.] In later or subsequent time.
Afterwards
'AFTERWARD, or 'AFTERWARDS, adverb [See Ward.] In later or subsequent time.
Aga
AGA, noun In the Turkish dominions, a commander or chief officer. The title is given to various chief officers, whether civil or military. It is also given to great land holders, and to the eunuchs of the Sultan's seraglio.
Again
AGAIN, adverb agen'. [Latin con, whence contra; ]
1. A second time; once more.
I will not again curse the ground. .
2. It notes something further, or additional to one or more particulars.
For to which of the angels said he at any time, thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee? and again I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son? and again let all the angels of God worship him. .
All the uses of this word carry in them the ideas of return or repetition; as in these phrases; give it back again; give him as much again that is, the same quantity once more or repeated.
There is not, in the world again such a commerce as in London.
Who art thou that answerest again?
Bring us word again
AGAIN and again often; with frequent repetition.
Against
AGAINST, preposition agenst'.
1. In opposition; noting enmity or disapprobation.
His hand will be against every man. .
I am against your pillows. .
2. In opposition, noting contrariety, contradiction, or repugnance; as, a decree against law, reason or public opinion.
3. In opposition, noting competition, or different sides or parties; as, there are twenty votes in the affirmative against ten in the negative.
4. In an opposite direction; as, to ride against the wind.
5. Opposite in place; abreast; as, a ship is against the mouth of a river. In this sense it is often preceded by over.
Aaron lighted the lamps over against the candlesticks.
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6. In opposition, noting adversity, injury, or contrariety to wishes; as, this change of measures is against us.
7. Bearing upon; as, one leans against a wall.
8. In provision for; in preparation for.
Urijah made it against king Ahaz came from Damascus.
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In this sense against is a preposition, with the following part of the sentence for an object. See After, preposition def. 2.
In short, the sense of this word is opposition, variously modified according to its application to different objects.
Agalloch
AG'ALLOCH,
AGAL'LOCHUM, noun [Of oriental origin.]
Aloes-wood, the product of a tree growing in China, and some of the Indian isles. There are three varieties, the calambac, the common lignum aloes, and the calambour. The first variety is light and porous, and so filled with a fragrant resin, that it may be molded by the fingers; the second is denser and less resinous; and the third is the aloes-wood used by cabinet makers and inlayers.
Agalmatolite
AGALMAT'OLITE, noun [Gr. image, and stone.]
A name given by Klaproth to two varieties of the pierre de lard, lard stone, of China. It contains no magnesia, but otherwise has the characters of talck. It is called in German, bildstein, figure-stone, and by Brongniart, steatite pagodite.
Agape
AG'APE, adverb or adjective [a and gape. See Gape.]
Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention; having the mouth wide open.
AG'APE, noun ag'apy. [Gr. Love.]
Among the primitive christians, a love feast or feast of charity, held before or after the communion, when contributions were made for the poor. This feast was held at first without scandal, but afterwards being abused, it was condemned at the council of Carthage, adjective D. 397.
Agaric
AG'ARIC, noun [Gr.]
In botany, mushroom, a genus of funguses, containing numerous species. Mushrooms grow on trees, or spring from the earth; of the latter species some are valued as articles of food; others are poisonous. The name was originally given to a fungus growing on the larch. This species is now frequent in the shops, and distinguished by the name of female agaric From this fungus is extracted a turpentine, of which three fourths of its weight is a resinous substance; the rest, a slimy, mucilaginous, earthy matter, tenacious and almost insoluble in water. It is used in dyeing, but is little esteemed in medicine.
The agaric of the oak is called touch-wood, from its readiness to take fire.
Agaric mineral, a calcarious earth, or carbonate of lime, resembling a fungus in color and texture; found in fissures of rocks, and on the roofs of caverns. It is sometimes used as an astringent in fluxes, and a styptic in hemorrhages. It occurs in a loose semi-indurated form, white or whitish red, or yellow, light and friable. Kirwan mentions three varieties.
Agast
AG'AST or AGH'AST, adjective
Struck with terror, or astonishment; amazed; struck silent with horror.
With shuddering horror pale and eyes agast
Agate
AGA'TE, adverb [a and gate.] On the way; going. obsolete
AG'ATE, noun [Gr. so called, says Pliny, 34, 10, because found near a river of that name in Sicily. So also Solinus and Isidore. But Bochart, with more probability, deduces it from the Punic and Hebrew, and with a different prefix, spotted. The word is used, and 33, to describe the speckled and spotted cattle of Laban and Jacob.]
A class of siliceous, semi-pellucid gems of many varieties, consisting of quartz-crystal, flint, horn-stone, chalcedony, amethyst, jasper, cornealian, heliotrope, and jade, in various combinations, variegated with dots, zones, filaments, ramifications, arborizations, and various figures. Agates seem to have been formed by successive layers of siliceous earth, on the sides of cavities which they now fill entirely or in part.
They are esteemed the least valuable of the precious stones. Even in Pliny's time, they were in little estimation. They are found in rocks, in the form of fragments, in nodules, in small rounded lumps, rarely in stalactites. Their colors are various. They are used for rings, seals, cups, beads, boxes and handles of small utensils.
AG'ATE, noun An instrument used by goldwire drawers, so called from the agate in the middle of it.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV):
Agatine
AG'ATINE, adjective Pretaining to agate.
AG'ATINE, noun A genus of shells, oval or oblong.
Agatized
AG'ATIZED, adjective Having the colored lines and figures of agate.
Agatized wood, a substance apparently produced by the petrifaction of wood; a species of hornstone.
Agaty
AG'ATY, adjective Of the nature of agate.
Agave
AGA'VE, noun [Gr. admirable.]
1. The American aloe. The great aloe rises twenty feet, and its branches form a sort of pyramid at the top.
2. A genus of univalvular shells.
Agaze
AGA'ZE, verb transitive [from gaze.] To strike with amazement. obsolete
Agazed
AGA'ZED, participle passive Struck with amazement. [Not in use.]
Age
AGE, noun [Latin aetas, or aevum. But these are undoubtedly contracted words.]
1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; as, the usual age of man is seventy years; the age of a horse may be twenty or thirty years; the age of a tree may be four hundred years.
2. That part of the duration of a being, which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
Jesus began to be about thirty years of age .
3. The latter part of life, or long continued duration; oldness.
The eyes of Israel were dim for age .
4. A certain period of human life, marked by a difference of state; as, life is divided into four stages or ages, infancy, youth, manhood, and old age; the age of youth; the age of manhood.
5. The period when a person is enabled by law to do certain acts for himself, or when he ceases to be controlled by parents or guardians; as, in our country, both males and females are of age in twenty-one years old.
6. Mature years; ripeness of strength or discretion.
He is of age as him. .
7. The time of life for conceiving children, or perhaps the usual time of such an event.
Sarah was delivered of a son when she was past age
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8. A particular period of time, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age the age of iron, the age of heroes or of chivalry.
9. The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation and a succession of generations; as, ages yet unborn.
The mystery hid from ages. .
10. A century; the period of one hundred years.
Aged
A'GED, adjective
1. Old; having lived long; having lived almost the usual time allotted to that species of being; applied to animals or plants; as, an aged man, or an aged oak.
2. Having a certain age; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.
A'GED, noun Old persons.
And the aged arose and stood up. .
Agen
AGEN', for again. Obs.
Agency
A'GENCY, noun [Latin agens. See Act.]
1. The quality of moving or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; operation; instrumentality; as, the agency of providence in the natural world.
2. The office of an agent, or factor; business of an agent entrusted with the concerns of another; as, the principal pays the charges of agency
Agenda
AGEND'A, noun [Latin things to be done.]
A memorandum-book; the service or office of a church; a ritual or liturgy.
Agent
A'GENT, adjective Acting; opposed to patient, or sustaining action; as, the body agent [Little used.]
A'GENT, noun
1. An actor; one that exerts power, or has the power to act; as, a moral agent
2. An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, heat is a powerful agent
3. A substitute, deputy, or factor; one entrusted with the business of another; and attorney; a minister.
Agentship
A'GENTSHIP, noun The office of an agent. [Not used.] We now use agency.
Aggelation
AGGELA'TION, noun [Latin gelu.] Concretion of a fluid. [Not used.]
Aggeneration
AGGENERA'TION, noun [Latin ad and generatio.] The state of growing to another. [Not used.]
Agger
AG'GER, noun [Latin] A fortress, or mound. [Not used.]
Aggerate
AG'GERATE, verb transitive [Latin aggero.] To heap. [Not used.]
Aggeration
AGGERA'TION, noun A heaping; accumulation; as, 'aggerations of sand.'
Agglomerate
AGGLOM'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin agglomero, ad and glomero, to wind into a ball, from glomus a ball of yarn; from the Heb. to involve.]
To wind, or collect into a ball; to gather into a mass.
AGGLOM'ERATE, verb intransitive To gather, grow or collect into a ball or mass.
Agglomerated
AGGLOM'ERATED, participle passive Wound or collected into a ball.
Agglomerating
AGGLOM'ERATING, participle present tense Winding into a ball; gathering into a lump.
Agglomeration
AGGLOMERA'TION, noun The act of winding into a ball; the state of being gathered into a ball or mass.
Agglutinant
AGGLU'TINANT, noun Any viscous substance which unites other substances, by causing an adhesion; any application which tends to unite parts which have too little adhesion.
AGGLU'TINANT, adjective Uniting as glue; tending to cause adhesion.
Agglutinate
AGGLU'TINATE, verb transitive [Lat. agglutino, ad and glutino, from gluten. Eng. glue. See Glue.]
To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
Agglutinated
AGGLU'TINATED, participle passive Glued together; united by a viscous substance.
Agglutinating
AGGLU'TINATING, participle present tense Gluing together; united by causing adhesion.
Agglutination
AGGLUTINA'TION, noun The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united.
Agglutinative
AGGLU'TINATIVE, adjective That tends to unite, or has power to cause adhesion.
Aggrace
AGGRA'CE, verb transitive To favor. [Not used.]
AGGRA'CE, noun Kindness; favor. [Not used.]
Aggrandization
AGGRANDIZA'TION, noun The act of aggrandizing. [Not used.]
Aggrandize
AG'GRANDIZE, verb transitive [Latin ad and grandis. See Grand.]
1. To make great or greater in power, rank or honor; to exalt, as, to aggrandize a family.
2. To enlarge, applied to things; as, to aggrandize our conceptions. It seems to be never applied to the bulk or dimensions of material bodies.
Aggrandized
AG'GRANDIZED, participle passive Made great or greater; exalted; enlarged.
Aggrandizement
AGGRAND'IZEMENT, noun The act of aggrandizing; the state of being exalted in power, rank or honor; exaltation; enlargement.
The Emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
Aggrandizer
AG'GRANDIZER, noun One that aggrandizes or exalts in power, rank or honor.
Aggrandizing
AG'GRANDIZING, participle present tense Making great; exalting; enlarging.
Aggrate
AGGRA'TE, verb transitive To please. [Not used.]
Aggravate
AG'GRAVATE, verb transitive [Latin aggravo, of ad and gravis, heavy. See Grave, Gravity.]
1. To make heavy, but not used in this literal sense. Figuratively, to make worse, more severe, or less tolerable; as, to aggravate the evils of life; to aggravate pain or punishment.
2. To make more enormous, or less excusable; as, to aggravate a crime.
3. To exaggerate.
4. To give coloring in description; to give an exaggerated representation; as, to aggravate a charge against an offender; to aggravate circumstances.
The propriety of the word in the latter passage is questionable. aggravate is generally used in reference to evils, or something improper or unnatural.
Aggravated
AG'GRAVATED, participle passive Increased, in severity or enormity; made worse; exaggerated.
Aggravating
AG'GRAVATING, participle present tense Increasing in severity, enormity, or degree, as evils, misfortunes, pain, punishment, crimes, guilt, etc.; exaggerating.
Aggravation
AGGRAVA'TION, noun
1. The act of making worse, used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing severity or hainousness; addition to that which is evil or improper; as, an aggravation of pain or grief.
2. Exaggerated representation, or heightened description of any thing wrong, improper, or unnatural; as, an aggravation of features in a caricature.
Aggregate
AG'GREGATE, verb intransitive [Latin aggrego, to collect in troops, of ad and grex, a herd or band. See Gregarious.]
To bring together; to collect particulars into a sum, mass or body.
AG'GREGATE, adjective Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; as, the aggregate amount of charges.
Aggregate flowers, in botany, are such as are composed of florets united by means of the receptacle or calyx.
Aggregate corporation, in law, is one which consists of two or more persons united, whose existence is preserved by a succession of new members.
AG'GREGATE, noun A sum, mass or assemblage of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stones, bricks, timber, etc. It differs from a compound in this, that the particulars of an aggregate are less intimately mixed than in a compound.
Aggregated
AG'GREGATED, participle passive Collected into a sum, mass or system.
Aggregately
AG'GREGATELY, adverb Collectively; taken in a sum or mass.
Aggregating
AG'GREGATING, participle present tense Collecting into a sum or mass.
Aggregation
AGGREGA'TION, noun
1. The act of aggregating; the state of being collected into a sum or mass; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
2. In chimistry, the affinity of aggregation is the power which causes homogeneous bodies to tend towards each other, and to cohere; and from a mixture, which consists of parts dissimilar in their nature. The word is used of solid, fluid, or aeriform bodies.
3. The union and coherence of bodies of the same nature.
Aggregative
AG'GREGATIVE, adjective Taken together; collective.
Aggregator
AG'GREGATOR, noun He that collects into a whole or mass.
Aggress
AGGRESS', verb intransitive [Latin aggredior, aggressus, of ad and gradior, to go. See Grade.]
To make a first attack; to commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to assault first or invade.
Aggressing
AGGRESS'ING, participle present tense Commencing hostility first; making the first attack.
Aggression
AGGRESS'ION, noun The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to war or controversy.
Aggressive
AGGRESS'IVE, adjective Tending to aggress; making the first attack.
Aggressor
AGGRESS'OR, noun The person who first attacks; he who first commences hostility or a quarrel; an assaulter; an invader.
The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer.
Aggrievance
AGGRIE'VANCE, noun See Aggrieve.] Oppression; hardship; injury. But grievance is more generally used.
Aggrieve
AGGRIE'VE, verb transitive [of ad and grieve from grief. See Grief and Grave.]
1. To give pain or sorrow; to afflict. In this sense, it is nearly superseded by grieve.
2. To bear hard upon; to oppress or injure, in one's rights; to vex or harass by civil or political injustice.
AGGRIE'VE, verb intransitive To mourn; to lament. [Not used. See Grieve.]
Aggrieved
AGGRIE'VED, participle passive Pained; afflicted, civilly or politically oppressed.
Aggrieving
AGGRIE'VING, participle present tense Afflicting; imposing hardships on; oppressing.
Aggroop
AGGROOP, verb transitive [See Group.]
To bring together; to group; to collect many persons in a crowd, or many figures into a whole, either in statuary, painting or description.
Aggrooped
AGGROOP'ED, participle passive Collected into a group or assemblage.
Aggroup
AGGROUP',
AGGROUP'ED,
AGH'AST, or more correctly AGHAST, a or adverb [Perhaps the participle of agaze; otherwise from the root of ghastly and ghost.]
Struck with amazement; stupefied with sudden fright or horror.
Aggrouped
AGGROUP'ED, participle passive Collected into a group or assemblage.
Aghast
AGH'AST, or more correctly AGHAST, a or adv. [Perhaps the participle of agaze; otherwise from the root of ghastly and ghost.] Struck with amazement; stupefied with sudden fright or horror.
Agile
AG'ILE, adjective [Latin agilis, from ago. See Act.]
Nimble; having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; brisk; active.
And bending forward, stuck his agile heels.
Agileness
AG'ILENESS, noun Nimbleness; activity; the faculty of moving the limbs quickly; agility.
Agility
AGIL'ITY, noun [Latin agilitas.]
The power of moving the limbs quickly; nimbleness; briskness; activity; quickness of motion.
Agio
A'GIO, noun
1. In commerce, the difference between bank notes and current coin. In Holland, the agio is three or four per cent; in Rome, from fifteen to twenty five per cent; in Venice, twenty per cent: but the agio is subject to variation.
2. Premium; sum given above the nominal value.
Agist
AGIST', verb transitive
In law, to take the cattle of others to graze, at a certain sum; to feed or pasture the cattle of others; used originally for the feeding of cattle in the king's forest.
Agistator
AGIST'OR, or AGISTA'TOR noun An officer of the king's forest, who has the care of cattle agisted, and collects the money for the same; hence called gist-taker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
Agistment
AGIST'MENT, noun The taking and feeding other men's cattle in the king's forest, or on one's own land; also, the price paid for such feeding. it denotes also a burden, charge or tax. [In canon law, a modus, or composition.
Agistor
AGIST'OR, or AGISTA'TOR noun An officer of the king's forest, who has the care of cattle agisted, and collects the money for the same; hence called gist-taker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
Agitable
AG'ITABLE, adjective [See Agitate.] That may be agitated, shaken or discussed.
Agitate
AG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin agito, from ago. See Act.]
1. To stir violently; to move back and forth with a quick motion; to shake or move briskly; as, to agitate water in a vessel.
2. To move or force into violent irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea.
3. To disturb, or excite into tumult; as, to agitate the mind or passions.
4. To discuss; to debate; to controvert; as, to agitate a question.
5. To consider on all sides; to revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive by mental deliberation; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
6. To move or actuate. [Not used.]
Agitated
AG'ITATED, participle passive Tossed from side to side; shaken; moved violently and irregularly; disturbed; discussed; considered.
Agitating
AG'ITATING, participle present tense Shaking; moving with violence; disturbing; disputing; contriving.
Agitation
AGITA'TION, noun
1. The act of shaking; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation
2. Disturbance of tranquility in the mind; perturbation; excitement of passion.
3. Discussion; examination of a subject in controversy.
4. A state of being deliberated upon, with a view to contrivance, or plan to be adopted; as, a scheme is in agitation
Agitato
AGITA'TO, in music, denotes a broken style of performance, adapted to awaken surprise or perturbation.
Agitator
AG'ITATOR, noun One who agitates; also, an insurgent; one who excites sedition or revolt. In antiquity, a charioteer, that is, a driver. In Cromwell's time, certain officers appointed by the army to manage their concerns, were called agitators.
Aglet
AG'LET,
AG'LET-BABY, noun A small image on the top of a lace.
Agminal
AG'MINAL, adjective [Latin agmen, a troop or body of men arrayed from ago.] Pertaining to an army or troop. [Little used.]
Agnail
AG'NAIL, noun [ad and nail. See Nail.]
A disease of the nail; a whitlow; an inflammation round the nail.
Agnate
AG'NATE, adjective [Latin agnatus.] Related or akin by the father's side.
AG'NATE, noun [Latin agnatus, adnascor, of ad and nascor, to be born. See Nature.] Any male relation by the father's side.
Agnatic
AGNAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.
Agnation
AGNA'TION, noun Relation by the father's side only, or descent in the male line, distinct from cognation, which includes descent in the male and female lines.
Agnel
AG'NEL, noun [From agnus, a lamb, the figure struck on the coin.]
An ancient French coin, value twelve sols, six deniers. It was called also mouton d'or and agnel d'or.
Agnition
AGNI'TION, noun [Latin agnitio, agnosco.] Acknowledgment. [Little used.]
Agnize
AGNI'ZE, verb transitive To acknowledge. [Not in use.]
Agnominate
AGNOM'INATE, verb transitive [Latin agnomino; ad and nomino, nomen, name.]
To name. [Little used.]
Agnomination
AGNOMINA'TION, noun [Latin agnomen, a surname, of ad and nomen. See Name.]
1. An additional name, or title; a name added to another, as expressive of some act, achievement, etc.; a surname.
2. Allusion of one word to another by sound.
AGNUS CASTUS. A species of vitex, so called from the Gr. chaste, or from a negative, and seed, from its imagined virtue of preserving chastity. The Athenian ladies reposed on the leaves of this plant at the feast of Ceres. The Latin Castus, chaste, now added to the name, forms a duplication of the sense.
AGNUS DEI. [Lamb of God.]
In the Romish Church, a cake of wax stamped with the figure of a lamb, supporting the banner of the cross. It is supposed to possess great virtues in preserving those who carry it, in faith and from accidents, etc. Also a part of the mass in which these words are repeated by the priest.
AGNUS SCYTHICUS. [Scythian Lamb.]
A name applied to the roots of a species of fern, Aspidium Baromez, covered with brown wooly scales, and, in shape, resembling a lamb; found in Russia and Tartary.
Ago
AGO', adverb or adjective [See Go.] Past; gone; as a year ago
Agog
AGOG', adverb
In a state of desire; highly excited by eagerness after an object.
The gaudy gossip when she's set agog
Agoing
AGO'ING, [The participle of go, with the prefix adjective ]
In motion, as to set a mill agoing; or about to go; ready to go; as, he is agoing immediately. The latter use is vulgar.
Agon
A'GON, noun [Gr.] The contest for the prize. [Not used.]
Agone
AGONE, participle passive agawn; , [See ago and Gone.] Ago; past; since.
[Nearly obsolete ]
Agonism
AG'ONISM, noun [Gr.] Contention for a prize.
Agonist
AG'ONIST, noun One who contends for the prize in public games. Milton has used Agonistes in this sense, and so called his tragedy, from the similitude of Sampson's exertions, in slaying the Philistines, to prize fighting. In church history, the disciples of Donatus are called agonistics.
Agonistic
AGONIST'IC,
AGONIST'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to prize-fighting, contests of strength, or athletic combats.
Agonistical
AGONIST'ICAL, a. Pertaining to prize-fighting, contests of strength, or athletic combats.
Agonistically
AGONIST'ICALLY, adverb In an agonistic manner; like prize-fighting.
Agonize
AG'ONIZE, verb transitive [Gr. to strive. See Agony.]
To write with extreme pain; to suffer violent anguish.
To smart and agonize at every pore.
AG'ONIZE, verb transitive To distress with extreme pain; to torture.
Agonizing
AG'ONIZING, participle present tense Suffering severe pain; writhing with torture.
Agonizingly
AG'ONIZINGLY, adverb With extreme anguish.
Agony
AG'ONY, noun [Gr. a contest with bodily exertion; a word used to denote the athletic games, in Greece; whence anguish, solicitude; from Latin ago. Gr. to strive. See Act.]
1. In strictness, pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece. Hence,
2. Extreme pain of body or mind; anguish; appropriately, the pangs of death, and the sufferings of our Savior in the garden of Gethsemane. .
3. Violent contest or striving.
Agood
AGOOD, adverb In earnest. [Not used.]
Agouty
AGOUTY, noun [Latin acutus.]
A quadruped of the order Rodentia; arranged by naturalist in the genus Cavia. It is of the size of a rabbit. The upper part of the body is brownish, with a mixture of red and black; the belly yellowish. Three varieties are mentioned, all peculiar to South America and West Indies. It burrows in the ground, or in hollow trees; lives on vegetables; is voracious like a pig, and makes a similar grunting noise. It holds its meat in its fore paws, like a squirrel. When scared or angry, its hair is erect, and it strikes the ground with its hind feet. Its flesh is white and well tasted.
Agrarian
AGRA'RIAN, adjective [Latin agrarius, from ager, a field.]
Relating to lands. appropriately, denoting or pertaining to an equal division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands equally among all the citizens, limiting the quantity which each might enjoy. Authors sometimes use the word as a noun; an agrarian for agrarian law.
An agrarian distribution of land or property, would make the rich, poor, but would not make the poor, rich.
Agree
AGREE', verb intransitive [Latin gratia. the primary sense is advancing, from the same root as Latin gradior.]
1. To be of one mind; to harmonize in opinion.
In the expediency of the law, all the parties agree
2. To live in concord, or without contention; as, parents and children agree well together.
3. To yield assent; to approve or admit; followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to an opinion.
4. To settle by stipulation, the minds of parties being agreed, as to the terms; as,
Didst thou not agree with me for a penny a day?
To agree on articles of partnership
5. To come to a compromise of differences; to be reconciled.
AGREE with thy adversary quickly.
6. To come to one opinion or mind; to concur; as, to agree on a place of meeting.
This sense differs not essentially from the fourth, and it often implies a resolving to do an act. .
7. To be consistent; to harmonize; not to contradict, or be repugnant.
Their witness agreed not together. .
This story agrees with what has been related by others.
8. To resemble; to be similar; as, the picture does not agree with the original.
9. To suit; to be accommodated or adapted to; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.
AGREE', verb transitive To admit, or come to one mind concerning; as, to agree the fact. Also, to reconcile or make friends; to put an end to variance; but these senses are unusual and hardly legitimate. Let the parties agree the fact, is really elliptical; let them agree on the fact.
Agreeability
AGREEABIL'ITY, noun Easiness of disposition. [Not used.]
Agreeable
AGREE'ABLE, adjective
1. Suitable; conformable; correspondent; consistent with; as, the practice of virtue is agreeable to the law of God and our own nature.
2. In pursuance of; in conformity with; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the house took up the report of the committee. It is not correctly followed by with. In this sense, some writers use agreeably, for agreeable but in violation of the true principles of construction; for the word is an adjective or attribute, in agreement with the last clause of the sentence. The house took up the report of a committee, (which taking up was) agreeable to the order of the day. The use of agreeably in this sentence would pervert the sense.
3. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; as, agreeable manners; fruit agreeable to the taste.
Agreeableness
AGREE'ABLENESS, noun
1. Suitableness; conformity; consistency; as, the agreeableness of virtue to the laws of God.
2. The quality of pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses; as, an agreeableness of manners; there is an agreeableness in the taste of certain fruits. This is the usual sense of the word.
3. Resemblance; likeness; with to or between; as,
The agreeableness between man and other parts of creation. obsolete
Agreeably
AGREE'ABLY, adverb
1. Pleasingly; in an agreeable manner; in a manner to give pleasure; as, to be agreeably entertained with a discourse.
2. Suitably; consistently; conformably;
The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down.
This is a gross error, proceeding from mistake. agreeably signifies, in an agreeable manner; but this is not the sense, nor does the word modify the verb grow. The sense is, marriages grow less frequent, which [fact, or whole member of the sentence, or proposition] is agreeable to the maxim above laid down. This use of agreeably is common, but grossly erroneous.
3. Alike; in the same manner.
Both armed agreeably obsolete
Agreed
AGREE'D, participle passive
1. Being in concord or harmony of opinion; of one mind.
Can two walk together except they be agreed? .
2. Assented to; admitted; as, a proposition is agreed to.
3. Settled by consent; implying bargain or contract; as, the terms were agreed to, or agreed upon.
Agreeing
AGREE'ING, participle present tense Living in concord; concurring; assenting; settling by consent.
Agreeingly
AGREE'INGLY, adverb In conformity to. [Little used.]
Agreement
AGREE'MENT, noun
1. Concord; harmony; conformity.
What agreement hath the temple of God with idols? .
2. Union of opinions or sentiments; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
3. Resemblance; conformity; similitude.
Expansion and duration have this farther agreement
4. Union of minds in regard to a transfer of interest; bargain; compact; contract; stipulation.
Make an agreement with me by a present. .
He made an agreement for the purchase of a house.
Agrestic
AGRES'TIC,
AGRES'TICAL, adjective [Latin agrestis; ager, a field, or the same root.]
Rural; rustic; pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; unpolished.
Agrestical
AGRES'TICAL, a. [L. agrestis; ager, a field, or the same root.] Rural; rustic; pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; unpolished.
Agricultor
AG'RICULTOR, noun [Latin ager, a field, and cultor, a cultivator.]
One whose occupation is to till the ground; a farmer; a husbandman; one skilled in husbandry.
Agricultural
AGRICUL'TURAL, adjective Pertaining to husbandry, tillage, or the culture of the earth.
Agriculture
AG'RICULTURE, noun [Latin ager, a field, and cultura, cultivation. See Acre and Culture.]
In general sense, the cultivation of the ground, for the purpose of producing vegetables, and fruits, for the use of man and beast; or the art of preparing the soil, sowing and planting seeds, dressing the plants, and removing the crops. In this sense, the word includes gardening, or horticulture, and also the raising and feeding of cattle, or stock. But in a more common and appropriate sense, it is used to signify that species of cultivation which is intended to raise grain and other crops for man and beast. It is equivalent to husbandry.
Agriculture is the most general occupation of man.
Agriculturism
AGRICUL'TURISM, noun The art or science of agriculture. [Little used.]
Agriculturist
AGRICUL'TURIST, noun One skilled in the art of cultivating the ground; a skilful husbandman.
Agrimony
AG'RIMONY, noun [Latin agremonia, from the Gr. Thus it is written by Pliny. But in lower Latin it is written agrimonia. Said to be from Gr. the web or pearl of the eye from white, which this plant was supposed to cure. See Theoph 887.]
A genus of plants, of several species. Of these, the eupatoria or common agrimony and the odorata or sweet scented, are the most useful.
Agrippinians
AGRIPPIN'IANS, noun In Church history, the followers of Agrippinus, bishop of Carthage, in the third century, who first taught and defended the doctrine of rebaptization.
Agrise
AGRISE, verb intransitive To shiver. [Not in use.]
AGRISE, verb transitive To terrify; also, to make frightful. [Not in use.]
Agrom
A'GROM, noun a disease frequent in Bengal, and other parts of the E. Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves, becomes rough and sometimes covered with white spots. The remedy is some chalybeate liquor, or the juice of mint.
Agrostemma
AGROSTEM'MA, noun A genus of plants of several species, containing the common corn cockle, wild lychnis or campion, etc.
Agrostis
AGROS'TIS, noun [Gr.] Bent grass; a genus of many species.
Aground
AGROUND', adverb [Of a, at or on, and ground.]
1. On the ground; a marine term, signifying that the bottom of a ship rests on the ground, for want of sufficient depth of water. When the ground is near the shore, the ship is said to be ashore or stranded.
2. Figuratively, stopped; impeded by insuperable obstacles.
Aguapecaca
AGUAPECA'CA, noun The Jacana, a Brazilian bird, about the size of a pigeon. In the extremity of each wing, it has a sharp prickle which is used for defense.
Ague
A'GUE, noun a'gu,
1. The cold fit which precedes a fever, or a paroxysm of fever in intermittents. It is accompanied with shivering.
2. Chilliness; a chill, or state of shaking with cold, though in health.
3. It is used for a periodical fever, an intermittent, whether quotidian, tertian, or quartan. In this case, the word, which signifies the preceding cold fit, is used for the disease.
A'GUE, verb transitive To cause a shivering in; to strike with a cold fit.
Ague-Cake
A'GUE-CAKE, noun a hard tumor on the left side of the belly, lower than the false ribs; supposed to be the effect of intermitting fevers.
Ague-Fit
A'GUE-FIT, noun A paroxysm of cold, or shivering; chilliness.
Ague-Proof
A'GUE-PROOF, noun Able to resist agues; proof against agues.
Ague-Spell
A'GUE-SPELL, noun A charm or spell to cure or prevent ague.
Ague-Struck
A'GUE-STRUCK, adjective Struck with ague.
Ague-Tree
A'GUE-TREE, noun A name sometimes applied to sassafras, on account of its febrifuge qualities.
Agued
A'GUED, adjective Chilly; having a fit of ague; shivering with cold or fear.
Aguerry
AGUER'RY, verb transitive To inure to the hardships of war; to instruct in the art of war. [Not in use.]
Aguillaneuf
AGUILLANEUF', noun [From a, to, gui, misleto, and l'an neuf, the new year.]
A form of rejoicing among the ancient Franks, on the first day of the year; derived from the druidical custom of cutting misleto, which was held sacred by the druids, and on the first day of the year, consecrating it by crying, aguillaneuf the year to the misleto. This cry is said to be still observed in some parts of France; and the term came to signify also a begging of New Year's gifts.
Aguise
AGUI'SE, verb transitive [See Guise.] To dress; to adorn. [Not in use.]
AGUI'SE, noun Dress. [Not in use.]
Aguish
A'GUISH, adjective Chilly; somewhat cold or shivering; also, having the qualities of an ague.
Her aguish love now glows and burns.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828); edition by akaitsurugi (github.com/akaitsurugi/webster1828). Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Text from the CrossWire Bible Society.