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To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

Connection in the way of descent. H. Spencer.

To fix or fasten in any way; to attach physically. Should they [caterpillars] affix them to the leaves of a plant improper for their food. Ray.

To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. That voice doth us affray. Shak.

Out of the way; astray. Why should he wander afield at the age of fifty-five! Trollope.

ip; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway.

The placenta and membranes with which the fetus is connected, and which come away after delivery.

On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." Pope. The way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise. Agree with thine adversary quickly. Matt. v. 25. Didst not thou agree with me for a penny Matt. xx. 13.

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

uble or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.

metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

On or toward the lee, or the side away from the wind; the opposite of aweather. The helm of a ship is alee when pressed close to the lee side. Hard alee, or Luff alee, an order to put the helm to the lee side.

Always; wholly; everywhere. [Obs.] Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser.

The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile.

Of all living (by way of emphasis). Northumberland was the proudest man alive. Clarendon.

ly a walk or passage in a garden or park, bordered by rows of trees or bushes; a bordered way. I know each lane and every alley green. Milton.

To admit; to concede; to make allowance or abatement. Allowing still for the different ways of making it. Addison. To allow of, to permit; to admit. Shak.