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Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

to make collections. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

Allied; akin. "Agnate words." Pownall. Assume more or less of a fictitious character, but congenial and agnate with the former. Landor.

ark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer.

effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

bata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.

A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

o be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

ection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

(Angling) An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.

of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

The language of the Alemanni. The Swabian dialect . . . is known as the Alemannic. Amer. Cyc.

To alienate; to estrange; to transfer, as property or ownership. [R.] "It the son alien lands." Sir M. Hale. The prince was totally aliened from all thoughts of . . . the marriage. Clarendon.

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

So as to serve for nourishment or food; nourishing quality. Sir T. Browne.

with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies. Same as Alkaloids. -- Volatile alkali, ammonia, so called in distinction from the fixed alkalies.…