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Belonging to old age. "Aged cramps." Shak.

To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei."

Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

able; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.

ir sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.

ting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral vessels.

Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.

Relating or belonging to air; high in air; aërial; as, an airy flight. "The airy region." Milton.

l for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

An imaginary art which aimed to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

A small South American dog, domesticated by the aborigines.

A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. (a) A European shrub (Rhamnus frangula); Alder buckthorn. (b) An American species of holly (Ilex ve…

Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike German tribes.

to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.