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In the manner of an aged person.

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

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

entation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.

To add or unite, as, a person, to an association.

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

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

To move or actuate. [R.] Thomson.

nomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

The doctrine that the existence of a personal Deity, an unseen world, etc., can be neither proved nor disproved, because of the necessary limits of the human mind (as sometimes charged upon Hamilton and Mansel), or because of the insufficiency of the evidence furnished by physical and physical data, to warrant a positi…

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enem…

the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

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

A sunk fence. See Ha-ha. Mason.

The person or thing that promotes or helps in something done; a helper; an assistant. It is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid like unto himself. Tobit viii. 6.

l or indisposed or in trouble. When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish. Richardson.

an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

rical and balanced whole, which may be sung by a single voice to the stanzas of a hymn or song, or even to plain prose, or played upon an instrument; a melody; a tune; an aria.