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The operation, practice, or art of tilling or preparing land for seed, and keeping the ground in a proper state for the growth of crops.

Payment of toll; also, the amount or quantity paid as toll. Drayton.

g vines, etc.; an espalier; a trellis. Spectator. I shall plant the roses against my treillage to-morrow. Walpole.

arding or protecting; guardianship; protection; as, the king's right of seigniory and tutelage. The childhood of the European nations was passed under the tutelage of the clergy. Macaulay.

The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of being full; wantage; deficiency.

Having but one flagellum; as, uniflagellate organisms.

Political servitude; dependence; subjection; slavery; as, the Greeks were held in vassalage by the Turks.

Victuals; food. [R.] "With my cargo of victualage." C. Bronté.

A small assemblage of houses in the country, less than a town or city. Village cart, a kind of two-wheeled pleasure carriage without a top.

An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak.

Villages; a district of villages. [Obs.] "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.

Light; giddy. [Obs.] They wroughten all their lust volage. Chaucer.

A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers.

Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley. [Obs.] Holland.

The projection formed by the thyroid cartilage in the neck. It is particularly prominent in males, and is so called from a notion that it was caused by the forbidden fruit (an apple) sticking in the throat of our first parent. -- Adam's flannel (Bot.), the mullein (Verbascum thapsus). -- Adam's needle (Bot.), the pop…

Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea, east of Greece. See Archipelago.

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.

Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas…