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Affection; inclination; passion; feeling; disposition. [Obs.] Shak.

affections, esteem, gratitude, etc. ; the malevolent affections, hatred, envy, etc.; inclination; disposition; propensity; tendency. Affection is applicable to an unpleasant as well as a pleasant state of the mind, when impressed by any object or quality. Cogan.

A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.

To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [Amer.] Bartlett.

terially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

y aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate. A logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange. The project now in agitation. Swift.

Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

s formed from albumin by dilute acids or by an acid solution of pepsin. Used also in combination, as antialbumose, hemialbumose.

Divination by means of a cock and grains of corn placed on the letters of the alphabet, the letters being put together in the order in which the grains were eaten. Amer. Cyc.

o the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

Divination by means of flour. Encyc. Brit.

A combination of alloxanic acid and a base or base or positive radical.

Any combination or compound of metals fused together; a mixture of metals; for example, brass, which is an alloy of copper and zinc. But when mercury is one of the metals, the compound is called an amalgam.

The act or art of alloying metals; also, the combination or alloy.

Divination by means of salt. [Spelt also halomancy.] Morin.

reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.