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ation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

perate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).

(Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. Loudon. And wreaths of agnus castus others bore. Dryden.

he line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

A hook, eyelet, or other device by which a piano wire is so held as to limit the vibration.

ble division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange.

concordance; harmony; -- with to or between. [Obs.] The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew.

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

cavity containing air to act as a spring for equalizing the flow of a liquid in a pump or other hydraulic machine.

nd characteristic constituent of white of eggs and of the serum of blood, and is found in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It i…