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An aëroplane or airship designed to carry passengers.

To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]

To influence or move, as the feelings or passions; to touch. A consideration of the rationale of our passions seems to me very necessary for all who would affect them upon solid and pure principles.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

Full of passion or emotion; earnest. [Obs.] -- Af*fec"tu*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.] Fabyan.

Companionship; acquaintance. [Obs.] About forty years past, I began a happy affinity with William Cranmer. Burton.

Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.

Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat.

In time past; formerly. "He prayed . . . as he did aforetime." Dan. vi. 10.

, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W.

r excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. The mind of man is agitated by various passions. Johnson.

Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

A cake of wax stamped with such a figure. It is made from the remains of the paschal candles and blessed by the Pope.

Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

To surpass; to get the better of. [Colloq.]