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Following dinner; post-prandial; as, an after-dinner nap.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, 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.…

particular period; hence, a generation. "Ages yet unborn." Pope. The way which the age follows. J. H. Newman. Lo! where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, Holds its warped mirror to a gaping age. C. Sprague.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

Collected into a rounded head of flowers.

ting; provoking; irritating. [Colloq.] A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.

lorets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

Exchange business; also, stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.

Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.

Inability to swallow.

To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with. That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange.

In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4. The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

An acute fever. [Obs.] "Brenning agues." P. Plowman.

the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky. Her aguish love now glows and burns. Granville.