AGATIZED
AG'ATIZED, adjective Having the colored lines and figures of agate.Agatized wood, a substance apparently produced by the petrifaction of wood; a species of hornstone.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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AGATY
AG'ATY, adjective Of the nature of agate.
AGAVE
AGA'VE, noun [Gr. admirable.]1. The American aloe. The great aloe rises twenty feet, and its branches form a sort of pyramid at the top.2. A genus of univalvular shells.
AGAZE
AGA'ZE, verb transitive [from gaze.] To strike with amazement. obsolete
AGAZED
AGA'ZED, participle passive Struck with amazement. [Not in use.]
AGE
AGE, noun [Latin aetas, or aevum. But these are undoubtedly contracted words.]1. The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; as, the usual age of ma...
AGED
A'GED, adjective1. Old; having lived long; having lived almost the usual time allotted to that species of being; applied to animals or plants; as, an aged man, or an aged oak.2....
AGEN
AGEN', for again. Obs.
AGENCY
A'GENCY, noun [Latin agens. See Act.]1. The quality of moving or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; operation; instrumentality; as, the agency of providenc...
AGENDA
AGEND'A, noun [Latin things to be done.]A memorandum-book; the service or office of a church; a ritual or liturgy.
AGENT
A'GENT, adjective Acting; opposed to patient, or sustaining action; as, the body agent [Little used.]A'GENT, noun1. An actor; one that exerts power, or has the power to act; as,...
AGENTSHIP
A'GENTSHIP, noun The office of an agent. [Not used.] We now use agency.
AGGELATION
AGGELA'TION, noun [Latin gelu.] Concretion of a fluid. [Not used.]
AGGENERATION
AGGENERA'TION, noun [Latin ad and generatio.] The state of growing to another. [Not used.]
AGGER
AG'GER, noun [Latin] A fortress, or mound. [Not used.]
AGGERATE
AG'GERATE, verb transitive [Latin aggero.] To heap. [Not used.]
AGGERATION
AGGERA'TION, noun A heaping; accumulation; as, 'aggerations of sand.'
AGGLOMERATE
AGGLOM'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin agglomero, ad and glomero, to wind into a ball, from glomus a ball of yarn; from the Heb. to involve.]To wind, or collect into a ball; to ga...
AGGLOMERATED
AGGLOM'ERATED, participle passive Wound or collected into a ball.
AGGLOMERATING
AGGLOM'ERATING, participle present tense Winding into a ball; gathering into a lump.
AGGLOMERATION
AGGLOMERA'TION, noun The act of winding into a ball; the state of being gathered into a ball or mass.
AGGLUTINANT
AGGLU'TINANT, noun Any viscous substance which unites other substances, by causing an adhesion; any application which tends to unite parts which have too little adhesion.AGGLU'T...
AGGLUTINATE
AGGLU'TINATE, verb transitive [Lat. agglutino, ad and glutino, from gluten. Eng. glue. See Glue.]To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite ...
AGGLUTINATED
AGGLU'TINATED, participle passive Glued together; united by a viscous substance.
AGGLUTINATING
AGGLU'TINATING, participle present tense Gluing together; united by causing adhesion.
AGGLUTINATION
AGGLUTINA'TION, noun The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united.
AGGLUTINATIVE
AGGLU'TINATIVE, adjective That tends to unite, or has power to cause adhesion.