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To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances.

The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

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.

Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances.

An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.

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.

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

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between. [Obs.] The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew.

In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4. The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding.

Help; succor; assistance; relief. An unconstitutional mode of obtaining aid. Hallam.

e of being manipulated by the pilot of a flying machine to preserve or destroy lateral balance; a hinged wing tip; a lateral stabilizing or balancing plane.

Utterance abroad; publicity; vent. You gave it air before me. Dryden.

f., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.

A plant deriving its sustenance from the air alone; an aërophyte.