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ondary respiratory tissue or modified periderm, found in many aquatic plants and distinguished by the large intercellular spaces.

ion, by determining at how short a distance two impressions upon the skin can be distinguished, and thus to determine whether the condition of tactile sensibility is normal or altered.

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.

Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.

Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law. Hooker.

In a flushed or blushing state.

Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.] She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.

tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet African-American, a United States citizen of African descent.

aturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.

life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott.

A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate.

To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]

Possible to be done; practicable. [Obs.] "Fit for agible things." Sir A. Sherley.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

A surname. [R.] Minsheu.

s charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or 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.

Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.