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Pertaining to, or like, agate.

To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.

charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

To strike with an ague, or with a cold fit. Heywood.

lper; an assistant. It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. Tobit viii. 6.

A tuft like that of the egret. (Bot.)

r, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

Resembling air; thin; unsubstantial; not material; airlike. "An airy spirit." Shak.

A winglike organ, or part.

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

n danger. -- Alarm clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm…

prehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

Winged; having wings, or side appendages like wings.

ny plants, but not incorporated in the embryo. It is the floury part in corn, wheat, and like grains, the oily part in poppy seeds, the fleshy part in the cocoanut, etc.

Like or pertaining to the Alcyonaria. -- n.

Relating to, becoming to, or like, an alderman; characteristic of an alderman.

Pertaining to, or like, an alderman.