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Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech. "Calm and sinless peace." Milton. "With calm attention." Pope. Such calm old age as conscience pure And self-commanding hearts ensure. Keble.

A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separete the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter.

To shake or agitate. "Concussed with uncertainty." Daniel.

To shake; to agitate. [Obs.] Harvey. -- Con`quas*sa"tion, n. [Obs.]

To agitate greatly; to shake violently. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay.

The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part of milk from which butter is obtained.

That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn.

To throw into disorder; to ruffle; to destroy the composure or equanimity; to agitate. Opposition . . . discomposeth the mind's serenity. Glanvill.

To agitate by conflicting passions, or by a variety of motives or of cares; to confound; to harass. Horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts. Milton.

To agitate the mind of; to deprive of tranquillity; to disquiet; to render uneasy; as, a person is disturbed by receiving an insult, or his mind is disturbed by envy.

doubt; wavering or fluctuating; undetermined. "Dubious policy." Sir T. Scott. A dubious, agitated state of mind. Thackeray.

To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated. Bacon.

To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce. [Obs.]

nt; characteristic knack. He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

An instrument for winnowing grain, by moving which the grain is tossed and agitated, and the chaff is separated and blown away.

To be agitated or excited by violent emotions. But finding no redress, ferment an rage. Milton. The intellect of the age was a fermenting intellect. De Quincey.

Agitated; excited. -- Flur"ried*ly adv.

To be in a heat or bustle; to be agitated and confused. The flstering, vainglorious Greeks. South.

form foam, or become filled with foam; -- said of a steam boiler when the water is unduly agitated and frothy, as because of chemical action.

To make rough, agitate, or disturb; to cause to ripple; as, to fret the surface of water.