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A person who is seventy years of age; a septuagenary.

A septuagenarian.

A person who is sixty years old.

ertaining to, or designating, the number sixty; poceeding by sixties; sixty years old. Sexagenary arithmetic. See under Sexagesimal. -- Sexagenary, or Sexagesimal, scale (Math.), a scale of numbers in which the modulus is sixty. It is used in treating the divisions of the circle.

A subordinate agency.

A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.

A subordinate agent.

A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also, its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.

A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt.

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

nations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

A medicine or agent to assist hearing.

ce, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action. One wise in council, one in action brave. Pope.

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. (a) To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. (b) To direct one's speech or discourse to.

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.] The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.

lso in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- called also albuminate.…

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

Fertilized by the agency of the wind; -- said of plants in which the pollen is carried to the stigma by the wind; wind- Fertilized. Lubbock.