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To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.

See Agast, v. t. [Obs.]

A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. Loudon. And wreaths of agnus castus others bore. Dryden.

See under Gas.

and usually white and translucent, but sometimes yellow, red, or gray. It is carved into vases, mantel ornaments, etc.

Alabastrine.

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

A flower bud. Gray.

, pity, or apprehension of evil; -- in old writers, sometimes followed by day or white; alas the day, like alack a day, or alas the white.

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

See Aleconner. [Eng.]

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

alled; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

Pertaining to expansions of the nasal bone or cartilage.

Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.

The feast of All Saints.

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

Capable of being amassed.

One who amasses.