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One who affirms.

One who afflicts.

t can afford to trade for smaller profits. Hamilton. He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. Wordsworth.

One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.

One who frightens. [Archaic]

One who receives an affront. Lytton.

One who affronts, or insults to the face.

The act of pouring water or other fluid on the whole or a part of the body, as a remedy in disease. Dunglison.

owing, in search of; in pursuit of. Ye shall not go after other gods. Deut. vi. 14. After whom is the king of Israel come out 1 Sam. xxiv. 14.

Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [Obs.] The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak.

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5.

One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. Dryden.

One who aggrandizes, or makes great.

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

One who aggregates.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

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

A relative whose relationship can be traced exclusively through males.

One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.