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es. "The affections of quantity." Boyle. And, truly, waking dreams were, more or less, An old and strange affection of the house. Tennyson.

serted; an assertion; a positive as, an affirmation, by the vender, of title to property sold, or of its quality.

as of thought, words, feelings, etc.; profusion; also, abundance of property; wealth. And old age of elegance, affluence, and ease. Coldsmith.

being the natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

, perhaps less than terror. He looks behind him with affright, and forward with despair. Goldsmith.

leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.…

l after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

d (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

An old name for severwal species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.

The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. Shak.

Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

To increase or become great. [Obs.] Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize. J. Hall.

azement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

marks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.

an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly. "Agreeably entertained." Goldsmith.

An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

Having the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky. Her aguish love now glows and burns. Granville.