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To frighten. [Archaic] "Fit tales . . . to affrighten babes." Southey.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

l ages are designated as three: The Stone age (the early and the later stone age, called paleolithic and neolithic), the Bronze age, and the Iron age. During the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

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

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.

; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.

of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

Without female organs; male.

With the sails furled, and the helm lashed alee; -- applied to ships in a storm. See Hull, n.

The lowest note but one in Guido Aretino's scale of music.

otice to (any one) of approaching danger; to rouse to vigilance and action; to put on the alert.

Lately; of late. [Archaic] There hath been alate such tales spread abroad. Latimer.

A female albino. Holmes.

The bleak, a small European fish having scales of a peculiarly silvery color which are used in making artificial pearls.

hing common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.

An instrument for determining the strength of spirits, with a scale graduated so as to indicate the percentage of pure alcohol, either by weight or volume. It is usually a form of hydrometer with a special scale.

United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n.