AGGRIEVING
AGGRIE'VING, participle present tense Afflicting; imposing hardships on; oppressing.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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AGGROOP
AGGROOP, verb transitive [See Group.]To bring together; to group; to collect many persons in a crowd, or many figures into a whole, either in statuary, painting or description.
AGGROOPED
AGGROOP'ED, participle passive Collected into a group or assemblage.
AGGROUP
AGGROUP',AGGROUP'ED,AGH'AST, or more correctly AGHAST, a or adverb [Perhaps the participle of agaze; otherwise from the root of ghastly and ghost.]Struck with amazement; stupefi...
AGGROUPED
AGGROUP'ED,participle passive Collected into a group or assemblage.
AGHAST
AGH'AST, or more correctly AGHAST, a or adv. [Perhaps the participle of agaze; otherwise from the root of ghastly and ghost.]Struck with amazement; stupefied with sudden fright ...
AGILE
AG'ILE, adjective [Latin agilis, from ago. See Act.]Nimble; having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; brisk; active.And bending forward, stuck his a...
AGILENESS
AG'ILENESS, noun Nimbleness; activity; the faculty of moving the limbs quickly; agility.
AGILITY
AGIL'ITY, noun [Latin agilitas.]The power of moving the limbs quickly; nimbleness; briskness; activity; quickness of motion.
AGIO
A'GIO, noun1. In commerce, the difference between bank notes and current coin. In Holland, the agio is three or four per cent; in Rome, from fifteen to twenty five per cent; in ...
AGIST
AGIST', verb transitiveIn law, to take the cattle of others to graze, at a certain sum; to feed or pasture the cattle of others; used originally for the feeding of cattle in the...
AGISTATOR
AGIST'OR, or AGISTA'TOR noun An officer of the king's forest, who has the care of cattle agisted, and collects the money for the same; hence called gist-taker, which in England ...
AGISTMENT
AGIST'MENT, noun The taking and feeding other men's cattle in the king's forest, or on one's own land; also, the price paid for such feeding. it denotes also a burden, charge or...
AGISTOR
AGIST'OR, or AGISTA'TOR noun An officer of the king's forest, who has the care of cattle agisted, and collects the money for the same; hence called gist-taker, which in England ...
AGITABLE
AG'ITABLE, adjective [See Agitate.] That may be agitated, shaken or discussed.
AGITATE
AG'ITATE, verb transitive [Latin agito, from ago. See Act.]1. To stir violently; to move back and forth with a quick motion; to shake or move briskly; as, to agitate water in a ...
AGITATED
AG'ITATED, participle passive Tossed from side to side; shaken; moved violently and irregularly; disturbed; discussed; considered.
AGITATING
AG'ITATING, participle present tense Shaking; moving with violence; disturbing; disputing; contriving.
AGITATION
AGITA'TION, noun1. The act of shaking; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation2. Disturbance of tr...
AGITATO
AGITA'TO, in music, denotes a broken style of performance, adapted to awaken surprise or perturbation.
AGITATOR
AG'ITATOR, noun One who agitates; also, an insurgent; one who excites sedition or revolt. In antiquity, a charioteer, that is, a driver. In Cromwell's time, certain officers app...
AGLET
AG'LET,AG'LET-BABY, noun A small image on the top of a lace.
AGMINAL
AG'MINAL, adjective [Latin agmen, a troop or body of men arrayed from ago.] Pertaining to an army or troop. [Little used.]
AGNAIL
AG'NAIL, noun [ad and nail. See Nail.]A disease of the nail; a whitlow; an inflammation round the nail.
AGNATE
AG'NATE, adjective [Latin agnatus.] Related or akin by the father's side.AG'NATE, noun [Latin agnatus, adnascor, of ad and nascor, to be born. See Nature.] Any male relation by ...
AGNATIC
AGNAT'IC, adjective Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors.
AGNATION
AGNA'TION, noun Relation by the father's side only, or descent in the male line, distinct from cognation, which includes descent in the male and female lines.