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One whose professional habit is a gown, as a divine or lawyer, and particularly a member of an English university; hence, a civilian, in distinction from a soldier.

See Gosherd. [Prov. Eng.]

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

Same as Egophony.

The rust of any metal, esp. of brass or copper; verdigris.

Going before; foregoing.

Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

In eager desire; eager; astir. All agog to dash through thick and thin. Cowper.

In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.

A contest for a prize at the public games.

Ago. [Archaic. & Poet.] Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.

Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

Contention for a prize; a contest. [Obs.] Blount.

One who contends for the prize in public games. [R.]

ined; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

In an agonistic manner.

The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.