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To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

To bark as a dog. [Obs.] Stubbes.

To employ or place so as to make alliteration. Skeat.

To make better; to improve; to meliorate. In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition. Macaulay.

Anchor-shaped.

To add on; to count in. [Obs.] Wollaston.

Having the extremities terminate in the heads of eagles, lions, etc.; as, an anserated cross.

To hear and decide, as arbitrators; as, to choose to arbitrate a disputed case.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.

To make or take auguries; to augur; to predict. [Obs.] C. Middleton.

A combination of auric acid with a base; as, aurate or potassium.

Resembling or containing gold; gold-colored; gilded.

To rate or chide vehemently; to scold. Holland. Motley.

Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.

Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.