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Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [R.]

Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.

To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enem…

or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. What agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

An agriculturist; a farmer. [R.]

e harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

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

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

otassa used for ague. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]

Symbolically: Something unsubstantial, light, or volatile. "Charm ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

In a state of discord; out of harmony; as, he is ajar with the world.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning. "We have had an alert." Farrow. On the alert, on the lookout or watch against attack or danger; ready to act.

Resisting poison; obviating the effects of venom; alexipharmic.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged. The Boyne, for a quarter of a mile, was alive with muskets and green boughs. Macaulay.