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Near or towards the stern of a vessel; astern; abaft.

To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway.

Mentioned afterwards; as, persons after-mentioned (in a writing).

Against; also, towards (in order to meet). [Obs.] Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.

Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

h the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

ocess of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

ounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.…

The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

aracterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positive conclusion (as taught by the school of Herbert Spencer); -- opposed alike dogmatic skepticism and to dogmatic theism.

In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding.

To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.

To expose to heat, for the purpose of expelling dampness, or of warming; as, to air linen; to air liquors.

An exposure to air, or to a fire, for warming, drying, etc.; as, the airing of linen, or of a room.

With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward. "With one arm akimbo." Irving.

Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

The warden, or keeper of a jail.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.