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Aggression. [Obs.]

first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

Agrestic. [Obs.]

An ensign; a standard bearer. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.

In the open-air. Smollett.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

Joy; gladsomeness.

A female ambassador; also, the wife of an ambassador. Prescott.

A female ancestor.

A female anchoret. And there, a saintly anchoress, she dwelt. Wordsworth.

A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

The principal star in Scorpio: -- called also the Scorpion's Heart.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

The condition or state of being free from fever.

Same as Apheresis.

An operation by which any part is separated from the rest. [Obs.] Dunglison.

Pressed close to, or lying against, something for its whole length, as against a stem, Gray.