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Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

ously provided; -- opposed to behindhand. [Archaic or Dial.] Aforehand in all matters of power. Bacon.

A powerful evil jinnee, demon, or monstrous giant.

A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

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 from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.…

The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion. Abbott.

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. Dryden.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

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

To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

orets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

r or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.