Agnus castus () A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree.
Agnus Dei () A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.
Agnus Dei () A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.
Agnus Dei () A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei."
Ago (a. & adv.) Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.
Agog (a. & adv.) In eager desire; eager; astir.
Agoing (adv.) In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.
Agones (pl. ) of Agon
Agon (n.) A contest for a prize at the public games.
Agone (a. & adv.) Ago.
Agone (n.) Agonic line.
Agonic (a.) Not forming an angle.
Agonism (n.) Contention for a prize; a contest.
Agonist (n.) One who contends for the prize in public games.
Agonistic (a.) Alt. of Agonistical
Agonistical (a.) Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural.
Agonistically (adv.) In an agonistic manner.
Agonistics (n.) The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.
Agonized (imp. & p. p.) of Agonize
Agonizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agonize
Agonize (v. i.) To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish.
Agonize (v. i.) To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
Agonize (v. t.) To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture.
Agonizingly (adv.) With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
Agonothete (n.) An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
Agonothetic (a.) Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.
Agonies (pl. ) of Agony
Agony (n.) Violent contest or striving.
Agony (n.) Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane.
Agony (n.) Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion.
Agony (n.) The last struggle of life; death struggle.
Agood (adv.) In earnest; heartily.
Agora (n.) An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
Agouara (n.) The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.
Agouta (n.) A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.
Agouti (n.) Alt. of Agouty
Agouty (n.) 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.
Agrace (n. & v.) See Aggrace.
Agraffe (n.) A hook or clasp.
Agraffe (n.) A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.
Agrammatist (n.) A illiterate person.
Agraphia (n.) The absence or loss of the power of expressing ideas by written signs. It is one form of aphasia.
Agraphic (a.) Characterized by agraphia.
Agrappes (n. pl.) Hooks and eyes for armor, etc.
Agrarian (a.) Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to an equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens.
Agrarian (a.) Wild; -- said of plants growing in the fields.
Agrarian (n.) One in favor of an equal division of landed property.
Agrarian (n.) An agrarian law.
Agrarianism (n.) An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.
Agrarianize (v. t.) To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.
Agre (adv.) Alt. of Agree
Agree (adv.) In good part; kindly.
Agreed (imp. & p. p.) of Agree
Agreeing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Agree
Agree (v. i.) To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.
Agree (v. i.) To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.
Agree (v. i.) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.
Agree (v. i.) To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.
Agree (v. i.) To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.
Agree (v. i.) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.
Agree (v. t.) To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.
Agree (v. t.) To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences.
Agreeability (n.) Easiness of disposition.
Agreeability (n.) The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness.
Agreeable (a.) Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste.
Agreeable (a.) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
Agreeable (a.) Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with.
Agreeable (a.) In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
Agreeableness (n.) The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.
Agreeableness (n.) The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency.
Agreeableness (n.) Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between.
Agreeably (adv.) In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly.
Agreeably (adv.) In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4.
Agreeably (adv.) Alike; similarly.
Agreeingly (adv.) In an agreeing manner (to); correspondingly; agreeably.
Agreement (n.) State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council.
Agreement (n.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.
Agreement (n.) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
Agreement (n.) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises.
Agreer (n.) One who agrees.
Agrestic (a.) Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.
Agrestical (a.) Agrestic.
Agricolation (n.) Agriculture.
Agricolist (n.) A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist.
Agricultor (n.) An agriculturist; a farmer.
Agricultural (a.) Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc.
Agriculturalist (n.) An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)
Agriculture (n.) The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.
Agriculturism (n.) Agriculture.
Agriculturist (n.) One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.
Agrief (adv.) In grief; amiss.
Agrimony (n.) A genus of plants of the Rose family.
Agrimony (n.) The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).
Agrin (adv. & a.) In the act of grinning.
Agriologist (n.) One versed or engaged in agriology.
Agriology (n.) Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.
Agrise (v. i.) To shudder with terror; to tremble with fear.
Agrise (v. t.) To shudder at; to abhor; to dread; to loathe.
Agrise (v. t.) To terrify; to affright.
Agrom (n.) A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.