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The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.

Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.

An old name for severwal species of Polyporus, corky fungi growing on decaying wood.

es is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), 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 st…

ow marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged. They live one hundred and thirty years, and never age for all that. Holland. I am aging; that is, I have a whitish, or rather a light-colored, hair here and there. Landor.

Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.…

gravating, or making worse; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

(Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

n additional or fourth name given by the Romans, or account of some remarkable exploit or event; as, Publius Caius Scipio Africanus.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.

ners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.

Anything which prevents sleep, or produces wakefulness, as strong tea or coffee.

An acute fever. [Obs.] "Brenning agues." P. Plowman.

pport, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.

with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble. When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish. Richardson.

wards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

A musical idea, or motive, rhythmically developed in consecutive single tones, so as to form a symmetrical 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.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.