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aggro

aggravation or aggression.

Aggroup

To bring together in a group; to group.

Aggroupment

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

Agha Aga

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

Aghast

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

Agible

Possible to be done; practicable.

Agile

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

Agility

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.

Agincourt

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.

Aging

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.

Agio

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

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

agism

discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people.

Agist

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.

Agistment

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.

Agistor Agister

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.

Agitable

Capable of being agitated, or easily moved.

Agitate

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

agitated

troubled emotionally and usually deeply. Opposite of unagitated.

agitating

causing or tending to cause anger or resentment.

Agitation

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.

Agitato

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

Agitator

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

agitprop

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

Agkistrodon

a genus of snakes comprising the copperheads.

Aglaomorpha

a genus of epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia.

Aglaonema

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

Agleam

Gleaming; as, faces agleam.

Aglow

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

Agminal

Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train.

Agminated Agminate

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

Agnail

A corn on the toe or foot.

Agnate

A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

Agnatha

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.

agnathan

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

Agnatic

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.

Agnation

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

agnise

be fully aware or cognizant of.

Agnize

To recognize; to acknowledge.

Agnoiology

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

Agnomen

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

Agnostic

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.

agnostical

of or pertaining to agnosticism; agnostic.

Agnosticism

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.

Ago

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

Agog

In eager desire; eager; astir.

Agoing

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

Agon

A contest for a prize at the public games.

Agonism

Contention for a prize; a contest.

Agonist

One who contends for the prize in public games.

Agonistical Agonistic

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

Agonistics

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

Agonize

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

agonizing

causing agony. Opposite to painless.

Agonizingly

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

Agonothete

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

Agony

Violent contest or striving.

Agood

In earnest; heartily.

Agora

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

Agouara

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

Agouta

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

Agouty Agouti

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.

Agraphia

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

Agrarian

One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

Agrarianism

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

Agrarianize

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

Agree

To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.

Agreeable

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

Agreeableness

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

Agreeably

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

agreeing

in agreement; of the same mind; having the same opinion.

Agreeingly

In an agreeing manner (to); correspondingly; agreeably.

Agreement

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.

Agrestic

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.

Agricolist

A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist.

Agricultural

Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.

Agriculture

The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

Agriculturist

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.

Agrimony

A genus of plants of the Rose family. The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

Agrin

In the act of grinning.

Agriology

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

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