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A breath or blast of wind.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

An affix.

A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediately following fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, as pf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.

Level with the ground; flat. [Obs.] Bacon.

Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak.

Aftergrass.

A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

A sensation or sense impression following the removal of a stimulus producing a primary sensation, and reproducing the primary sensation in positive, negative, or complementary form. The aftersensation may be continuous with the primary sensation or follow it after an interval.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Containing or producing agates. Craig.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana.

Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.