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To heap up. [Obs.] The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller.

Aggrandizement. [Obs.] Waterhouse.

To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.

he name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

re. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air.

nder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

nce attached to a steam boiler for showing when the pressure of steam is too high, or the water in the boiler too low. -- Alarm post, a place to which troops are to repair in case of an alarm.

d in other animal substances, both fluid and solid, also in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of al…

le compound of a salt with alcohol, in which the latter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization. Graham.

A caldron of boiling water into which an accused person plunged his forearm as a test of innocence or guilt.

es the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

ash, ammoma, and lithia, whose distinguishing peculiarities are solubility in alcohol and water, uniting with oils and fats to form soap, neutralizing and forming salts with acids, turning to brown several vegetable yellows, and changing reddened litmus to blue. Fixed alkalies, potash and soda. -- Vegetable alkalies.…

Glauber's salt), which is less injurious to vegetation. Black alkali is so called because water containing it dissolves humus, forming a dark-colored solution which, when it collects in puddles and evaporates, produces characteristic black spots.

An oxidation product of uric acid. It is of a pale reddish color, readily soluble in water or alcohol.

ning to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas. Lyell.