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Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay.

Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

The science of the distribution and management of land.

One versed in agronomy; a student of agronomy.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

(Aëronautics) A small plane or surface capable of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

See Acton.

The tunny. See Albicore.

The state of being winged.

The process of becoming white, or developing white patches, or streaks.

The act or process of making white. [Obs.]

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

The act of reducing a substance to a fine or impalpable powder. [Obs.] Johnson.

See Halcyon.

A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria.

One of the orders of Anthozoa. It includes the Alcyonacea, Pennatulacea, and Gorgonacea.

The kingfishers.