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that which denies; an affirmative proposition; that side of question which affirms or maintains the proposition stated; -- opposed to Ant: negative; as, there were forty votes in the affirmative, and ten in the negative. Whether there are such beings or not, 't is sufficient for my purpose that many have believed the a…

Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.

Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet…

The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

Containing or producing agates. Craig.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

ricana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to 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 fr…

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

Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

(Zoöl.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W.

The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W.

Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [R.]