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.
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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.
Without tongue; tongueless.
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.
in agreement; of the same mind; having the same opinion.
In an agreeing manner (to); correspondingly; agreeably.
State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
One who agrees.
Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.
Agrestic.
Agriculture.
A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist.
An agriculturist; a farmer.
Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.
An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)
The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
Agriculture.
One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
In grief; amiss.
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).
In the act of grinning.
One versed or engaged in agriology.
Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.
To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
of or pertaining to agrology.
the science of soils in relation to crops.
A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.
of or pertaining to agronomy.
The science of the distribution and management of land.
One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.
The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.
In the act of groping.
a genus comprising the corncockles.
A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.
Pertaining to agrostography.
A description of the grasses.
Pertaining to agrostology.
One skilled in agrostology.
That part of botany which treats of the grasses.
On the ground; stranded; -- a nautical term applied to a ship when its bottom lodges on the ground.
See Aggroupment.
Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.
A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.
An acute fever.
To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit.
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