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A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

Containing or producing agates. Craig.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

ricana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made fr…

Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott.

Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

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

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

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

(Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W.

The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W.

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

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." Blackstone.

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly, adv.

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.