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Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.

Pertaining to an army marching, or to a train. [R.]

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." Blackstone.

The doctrine concerning those things of which we are necessarily ignorant.

Professing ignorance; involving no dogmatic; pertaining to or involving agnosticism. -- Ag*nos"tic*al*ly, adv.

A triple prayer in the sacrifice of the Mass, beginning with the words "Agnus Dei."

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.

Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.…

To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise. Agree with thine adversary quickly. Matt. v. 25. Didst not thou agree with me for a penny Matt. xx. 13.

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas…

In the act of grinning. "His visage all agrin." Tennyson.

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

In the act of groping. Mrs. Browning.

Pertaining to agrostography.

Pertaining to agrostology.

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

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

A kind of gun metal, containing copper, zinc, and iron, but no tin.