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Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

st act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

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.

Inability to swallow.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

The state of being winged.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

The act or process of making white. [Obs.]

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

Saturation with alcohol; putting the animal system under the influence of alcoholic liquor.

An edible marine fish of California (Rhacochilus toxotes).

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon.

The act or process of affording nutriment; the function of the alimentary canal.

See Allineation.

The act rendering alkaline by impregnating with an alkali; a conferring of alkaline qualities.