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.

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.

a gentian of East North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.

To be guilty of; to offend; to sin against; to wrong.

To dress; to attire; to adorn.

Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky.

In a gushing state.

Without female organs; male.

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

A sunk fence. See Ha-ha.

In or to the front; in advance; onward.

In a heap; huddled together.

Aloft; on high.

An exclamation to call one's attention; hem.

Hey; ho.

On high.

Near the wind; as, to lay a ship ahold.

On horseback.

A term used in hailing; as, /Ship ahoy./

The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

The Asiatic gazelle.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

Pinched with hunger; very hungry.

The supreme deity, the embodiment of the principle of good, creator of the world, source of light, and guardian of mankind. He is the opponent of Ahriman, the spirit of evil, both being sprung from Eternity, or, according to another version, Ahriman being the offspring of a moment of doubt on the part of Ormazd. Ormazd is attended by angels and archangels. He is represented as a bearded man inclosed in a winged circle, a conception probably derived from the Assyrian representations of Ashur.

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

Help; succor; assistance; relief.

An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

The adjutant of a regiment.

Aid.

Helping; helpful; supplying aid.

One who, or that which, aids.

Helpful.

Helpless; without aid.

See Ayle.

Same as Aglet.

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.

Sour.

Charcoal prepared for making powder.

The small white European heron. See Egret.

A needle-shaped peak.

A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet.