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The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

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

Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.

st act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.

euvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

Inability to swallow.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

One versed or engaged in agriology.

Description or comparative study of the customs of savage or uncivilized tribes.

See Ætiology.