Aggregate (n.) A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
Aggregate (n.) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles.
Aggregately (adv.) Collectively; in mass.
Aggregation (n.) The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
Aggregative (a.) Taken together; collective.
Aggregative (a.) Gregarious; social.
Aggregator (n.) One who aggregates.
Aggrege (v. t.) To make heavy; to aggravate.
Aggressed (imp. & p. p.) of Aggress
Aggressing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggress
Aggress (v. i.) To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.
Aggress (v. t.) To set upon; to attack.
Aggress (n.) Aggression.
Aggression (n.) The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power."
Aggressive (a.) Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation.
Aggressor (n.) The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
Aggrievance (n.) Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.
Aggrieved (imp. & p. p.) of Aggrieve
Aggrieving (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggrieve
Aggrieve (v. t.) To give pain or sorrow to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved.
Aggrieve (v. i.) To grieve; to lament.
Aggrouped (imp. & p. p.) of Aggroup
Aggrouping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Aggroup
Aggroup (v. t.) To bring together in a group; to group.
Aggroupment (n.) Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.
Aggry (a.) Alt. of Aggri
Aggri (a.) Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.
Aghast (v. t.) See Agast, v. t.
Aghast (a & p. p.) Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
Agible (a.) Possible to be done; practicable.
Agile (a.) Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
Agilely (adv.) In an agile manner; nimbly.
Agileness (n.) Agility; nimbleness.
Agility (n.) The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
Agility (n.) Activity; powerful agency.
Agios (pl. ) of Agio
Agio (n.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
Agiotage (n.) Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
Agist (v. t.) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same.
Agistator (n.) See Agister.
Agister (n.) Alt. of Agistor
Agistor (n.) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.
Agistor (n.) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.
Agistment (n.) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
Agistment (n.) The price paid for such feeding.
Agistment (n.) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
Agitable (a.) Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.
Agitated (imp. & p. p.) of Agitate
Agitating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agitate
Agitate (v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
Agitate (v. t.) To move or actuate.
Agitate (v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
Agitate (v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
Agitatedly (adv.) In an agitated manner.
Agitation (n.) The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.
Agitation (n.) A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
Agitation (n.) Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.
Agitation (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
Agitative (a.) Tending to agitate.
Agitato (a.) Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.
Agitator (n.) One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.
Agitator (n.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators.
Agitator (n.) An implement for shaking or mixing.
Agleam (adv. & a.) Gleaming; as, faces agleam.
Aglet (n.) Alt. of Aiglet
Aiglet (n.) A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (Shak.), an aglet image.
Aiglet (n.) A round white staylace.
Agley (adv.) Aside; askew.
Aglimmer (adv. & a.) In a glimmering state.
Aglitter (adv. & a.) Glittering; in a glitter.
Aglossal (a.) Without tongue; tongueless.
Aglow (adv. & a.) In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.
Aglutition (n.) Inability to swallow.
Agminal (a.) Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train.
Agminate (a.) Alt. of Agminated
Agminated (a.) Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
Agnail (n.) A corn on the toe or foot.
Agnail (n.) An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.
Agnate (a.) Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.
Agnate (a.) Allied; akin.
Agnate (n.) A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.
Agnatic (a.) Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.
Agnation (n.) Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.
Agnition (n.) Acknowledgment.
Agnize (v. t.) To recognize; to acknowledge.
Agnoiology (n.) The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.
Agnomen (n.) An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.
Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just.
Agnominate (v. t.) To name.
Agnomination (n.) A surname.
Agnomination (n.) Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.
Agnostic (a.) Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism.
Agnostic (n.) One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.
Agnosticism (n.) That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Agnosticism (n.) The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.
Agnuses (pl. ) of Agnus
Agni (pl. ) of Agnus
Agnus (n.) Agnus Dei.