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To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic] I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak.

ntal; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

A diffusible substance formed from albumin by the action of natural or artificial gastric juice. See Peptone.

Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment. The youthful wanderers found a wild alcove. Falconer.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

That which nourishes; food; nutriment; anything which feeds or adds to a substance in natural growth. Hence: The necessaries of life generally: sustenance; means of support. Aliments of theiBacon.

Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishing the materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.

The inspissated juice of several species of aloe, used as a purgative. [Plural in form but syntactically singular.] American aloe, Century aloe, the agave. See Agave.

A very high mountain. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Regard for others, both natural and moral; devotion to the interests of others; brotherly kindness; -- opposed to egoism or selfishness. [Recent] J. S. Mill.

A treatise on amphibious animals; the department of natural history which treats of the Amphibia.

lline compound used as an antipyretic and analgesic, employed chiefly in rheumatism and neuralgia. It is a complex derivative of quinoline.

and manners. De Quincey. Decay of public spirit, which may be considered analogous to natural death. J. H. Newman. nalogous pole (Pyroelect.), that pole of a crystal which becomes positively electrified when heated.

f a fish is the analogue of a lung in a quadruped, although the two are not of like structural relations.

A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

A series of ancestors or progenitors; lineage, or those who compose the line of natural descent.