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Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.

The establishment or ascertaining of parentage; the assignment of a child, as a bastard, to its father; filiation.

A reënforcement; a strengthening. Hallam.

The act of frightening; also, a cause of terror; an object of dread. B. Jonson.

Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.

Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.

Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet…

Denoting the aim or object; concerning; in relation to; as, to look after workmen; to inquire after a friend; to thirst after righteousness.

An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.

An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.

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

Containing or producing agates. Craig.

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.

ana), 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 strong thread and a tough paper are made from…

That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2.

Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.