a fragrant lotion for a man's face after shaving.
Wisdom or perception that comes after it can be of use.
Characterized by after-wit; slow-witted.
The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, when they are expelled from the womb after delivery.
A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late.
An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end.
A second crop or harvest in the same year.
To look after.
A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient.
The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.
A second growth or crop, or (metaphorically) development.
The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of the ship, to attend the after-sails.
The last milk drawn in milking; strokings.
A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen.
Hindmost; -- opposed to foremost.
The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.
The hypoptilum.
having an aftershaft (a small feather at the base of some feathers)
A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.
Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought.
At a later or succeeding time.
Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
Nearest the stern.
Toward the stern.
In return, back; as, bring us word again.
To redeem.
Against; also, towards (in order to meet).
To gainsay.
Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.
To withstand.
Back again.
Same as Agar-agar.
Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.
Lacking milk to suckle with.
A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.
A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.
A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.
A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.
Produced without sexual union; as, agamic or unfertilized eggs. Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.
In an agamic manner.
An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage.
Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.
Reproducing or produced without sexual union.
Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. cryptogamous.
Without ganglia.
The love feast of the primitive Christians, being a meal partaken of in connection with the communion.
common shortened form of agar-agar{2}.
A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).
A fungus of the genus Agaricus, of many species, of which the common mushroom is an example.
In a state of gasping.
See Aghast.
giant hyssop; Mexican hyssop.
Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.
A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
Containing or producing agates.
Pertaining to, or like, agate.
To convert into agate; to make resemble agate.
Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.
a natural family of chiefly tropical and xerophytic plants: includes Dracenaceae (Dracaenaceae); comprises plants that in some classifications are divided between the Amaryllidaceae and the Liliaceae.
A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (Agave Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It takes from ten to seventy years, according to climate, to attain maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The juice has purgative and diuretic properties. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.
looking intently; -- used of eyes.
Gazing with astonishment; amazed.
Asiatic epithet for Rhea or Cybele.
To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
of very long duration
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.
In the manner of an aged person.
The quality of being aged; oldness.
same as aging.
discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.
A genus of birds including the red-winged blackbirds.
Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.
lasting through all time; unending; as, The agelong struggle for freedom.
See Again.
The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality.
See Agendum.
a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to.
Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book; also, a list of items to be considered. See agenda.
Characterized by sterility; infecund.
Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
Impotence; sterility.
One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency.
Agency.
A genus of plants, one species of which (Ageratum Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.
The act of producing in addition.
An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
To heap up.
A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand.
In heaps; full of heaps.
To heap up.
A collection or mass.
clustered together but not coherent.
Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.
The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together.
Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.
Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere.
United with glue or as with glue; cemented together.
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Grace; favor.
To bring, or tend to bring, to a uniform grade, or slope, by addition of material; as, streams aggrade their beds by depositing sediment.
Capable of being aggrandized.
Aggrandizement.
To increase or become great.
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.
One who aggrandizes, or makes great.
To please.
To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.
made more severe or intense, especially in law; as, aggravated assault.
Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.
In an aggravating manner.
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.
Tending to aggravate. That which aggravates.
A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.
Collectively; in mass.
The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
Taken together; collective.