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f young nobles from hence into Spain. Wotton. There is an unusual affluence of strangers this year. Carlyle.

e natural result; to provide; to furnish; as, a good life affords consolation in old age. His tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

manner of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

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.

life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old. Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. Shak.

The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

or to make collections. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.

great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.

nor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

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

Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.

ck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

e; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray.

rian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

t agreement hath the temple of God with idols 2 Cor. vi. 16. Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke.

In the act of grinning. "His visage all agrin." Tennyson.