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Pleasing, either to 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.

The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.

In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly. "Agreeably entertained." Goldsmith.

Perhaps; possibly. [Scotch] Burns.

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

ite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

Alabastrine.

Of, pertaining to, or like, alabaster; as alabastrine limbs.

A flower bud. Gray.

Easily alarmed or disturbed.

Capability of being alienated. "The alienability of the domain." Burke.

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

Capable of being alleged or affirmed. The most authentic examples allegeable in the case. South.

Able to enter into alliance.

Capable of being allotted.

Praiseworthy; laudable. [Obs.] Hacket.

The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.

In an allowable manner.

The simplest rudiments; elements. The very alphabet of our law. Macaulay. Deaf and dumb alphabet. See Dactylology.