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Starvation. Bp. Hall.

See Afforcement. [Obs.]

Inflames; glowing with light or passion; ablaze. G. Eliot.

In a foaming state; as, the sea is all afoam.

Named before. Peacham.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

A second game; hence, a subsequent scheme or expedient. Wotton. Aftergame at Irish, an ancient game very nearly resembling backgammon. Beau. & Fl.

A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

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

In an agamic manner.

An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe.

Reproduction without the union of parents of distinct sexes: asexual reproduction.

producing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.

Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

A chamber or cavity filled with air, in an animal or plant.

A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.