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.

One who aggregates.

To make heavy; to aggravate.

Aggression.

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./

Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance.

To grieve; to lament.

subjected to an injustice.

aggravation or aggression.

To bring together in a group; to group.

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

In Turkey, a commander or chief officer. It is used also as a title of respect.

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.

To affright; to terrify.

Possible to be done; practicable.

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.

In an agile manner; nimbly.

Agility; nimbleness.

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.

a battle in which English longbowmen under Henry V decisively defeated a much larger French army in 1415. It was named for the site at which it occurred.

the process by which objects or materials acquire desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time under specific conditions. It is used mostly for foods snd beverages, but also for other materials.

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.

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.

discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.

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.

See Agister.

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests. The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. The price paid for such feeding. A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

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. Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.

Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated.

In an agitated manner.

causing or tending to cause anger or resentment.

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.

Tending to agitate.

Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

agitation and propaganda; -- used especially for such activities carried out on behalf of communist activists.

same as agitprop{2}.

a genus of snakes comprising the copperheads.

a genus of epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia.

a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.

Gleaming; as, faces agleam.

Aside; askew.

In a glimmering state.

Glittering; in a glitter.

In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow.

Inability to swallow; dysphagia.

Inability to swallow.

Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train.

Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.

A corn on the toe or foot.

A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

a class of eel-shaped chordates with a cartilaginous skeleton lacking jaws, scales, and pelvic fins. Among these are the lampreys and hagfishes. There are some extinct forms.

an eel-shaped vertebrate without jaws or paired appendages; a member of the Agnatha. The group includes the cyclostomes and some extinct forms.

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation.

be fully aware or cognizant of.

Acknowledgment.

To recognize; to acknowledge.

The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

An additional or fourth name given by the Romans, on account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

To name.

A surname.

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.

of or pertaining to agnosticism; agnostic.

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. 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.

Agnus Dei.

Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

In eager desire; eager; astir.

In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.

A contest for a prize at the public games.

Agonic line.

Not forming an angle.

Contention for a prize; a contest.

One who contends for the prize in public games.

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.

In an agonistic manner.

The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.

To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.

expressing pain or agony.

causing agony. Opposite to painless.

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.

Violent contest or striving.

In earnest; heartily.

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Haiti.

A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.

See Aggrace.

A hook or clasp.

A illiterate person.

The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.

Characterized by agraphia.

Hooks and eyes for armor, etc.

One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.

To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.

In good part; kindly.

Easiness of disposition.

Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.

The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.

In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.