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To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences. [Obs.]

t that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

clock or watch, a clock or watch which can be so set as to ring or strike loudly at a prearranged hour, to wake from sleep, or excite attention. -- Alarm gauge, a contrivance 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 w…

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

or Alman rivets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

The letters of a language arranged in the customary order; the series of letters or signs which form the elements of written language.

the order of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

To arrange alphabetically; as, to alphabetize a list of words.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

Bearing aments; having flowers arranged in aments; as, amentaceous plants.

ng, friendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the pu…

A division of Mollusca remarkable for the bilateral symmetry of the organs and the arrangement of the nerves.

ble (Nat. Hist.), a table in which the characteristics of the species or other groups are arranged so as to facilitate the determination of their names.

Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

pecies, and sometimes intermediate groupings, all in regular subordination, but variously arranged by different writers.

The arrangement of flowers in a cluster; the science of the relative position of flowers; inflorescence.

g at his length between them. Halliwell, Conybeare. -- Apple-pie order, perfect order or arrangement. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

To ordain; to determine; to arrange. For the Lord had appointed to defeat the good counsel of Ahithoph2 Sam. xvii. 14.