Age (n.) A great period in the history of the Earth.
Age (n.) A century; the period of one hundred years.
Age (n.) The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.
Age (n.) A long time.
Aged (imp. & p. p.) of Age
Aging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Age
Age (v. i.) To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.
Age (v. t.) To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
Aged (a.) Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.
Aged (a.) Belonging to old age.
Aged (a.) Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.
Agedly (adv.) In the manner of an aged person.
Agedness (n.) The quality of being aged; oldness.
Ageless (a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.
Agen (adv. & prep.) See Again.
Agencies (pl. ) of Agency
Agency (n.) The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
Agency (n.) The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.
Agency (n.) The place of business of am agent.
Agend (n.) See Agendum.
Agenda (pl. ) of Agendum
Agendum (n.) Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.
Agendum (n.) A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]
Agenesic (a.) Characterized by sterility; infecund.
Agenesis (n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
Agennesis (n.) Impotence; sterility.
Agent (a.) Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action.
Agent (n.) One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
Agent (n.) One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
Agent (n.) An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
Agential (a.) Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
Agentship (n.) Agency.
Ageratum (n.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.
Aggeneration (n.) The act of producing in addition.
Agger (n.) An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
Aggerate (v. t.) To heap up.
Aggeration (n.) A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand.
Aggerose (a.) In heaps; full of heaps.
Aggest (v. t.) To heap up.
Agglomerated (imp. & p. p.) of Agglomerate
Agglomerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agglomerate
Agglomerate (v. t.) To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Agglomerate (v. i.) To collect in a mass.
Agglomerate (a.) Alt. of Agglomerated
Agglomerated (a.) Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
Agglomerated (a.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers.
Agglomerate (n.) A collection or mass.
Agglomerate (n.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.
Agglomeration (n.) The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
Agglomeration (n.) State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster.
Agglomerative (a.) Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.
Agglutinant (a.) Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion.
Agglutinant (n.) Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.
Agglutinated (imp. & p. p.) of Agglutinate
Agglutinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agglutinate
Agglutinate (v. t.) To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.
Agglutinate (a.) United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
Agglutinate (a.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.
Agglutination (n.) The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Agglutination (n.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.
Agglutinative (a.) Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Agglutinative (a.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound.
Aggrace (v. t.) To favor; to grace.
Aggrace (n.) Grace; favor.
Aggrandizable (a.) Capable of being aggrandized.
Aggrandization (n.) Aggrandizement.
Aggrandized (imp. & p. p.) of Aggrandize
Aggrandizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggrandize
Aggrandize (v. t.) To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
Aggrandize (v. t.) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
Aggrandize (v. t.) To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
Aggrandize (v. i.) To increase or become great.
Aggrandizement (n.) The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.
Aggrandizer (n.) One who aggrandizes, or makes great.
Aggrate (a.) To please.
Aggravated (imp. & p. p.) of Aggravate
Aggravating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggravate
Aggravate (v. t.) To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
Aggravate (v. t.) To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
Aggravate (v. t.) To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.
Aggravate (v. t.) To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
Aggravating (a.) Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.
Aggravating (a.) Exasperating; provoking; irritating.
Aggravatingly (adv.) In an aggravating manner.
Aggravation (n.) The act of aggravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.
Aggravation (n.) Exaggerated representation.
Aggravation (n.) An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.
Aggravation (n.) Provocation; irritation.
Aggravative (a.) Tending to aggravate.
Aggravative (n.) That which aggravates.
Aggregated (imp. & p. p.) of Aggregate
Aggregating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggregate
Aggregate (v. t.) To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil."
Aggregate (v. t.) To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.
Aggregate (v. t.) To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels.
Aggregate (a.) Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.
Aggregate (a.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands.
Aggregate (a.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.
Aggregate (a.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.
Aggregate (a.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.