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To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [Amer.] Bartlett.

To look after. [Poetic] Shak.

. -- Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- To and again, to and fro. [Obs.] De Foe.

hly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

f which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), 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,…

le 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.

A corn on the toe or foot. [Obs.]

Ago. [Archaic. & Poet.] Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.

stent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

To terrify; to affright. [Obs.] His manly face that did his foes agrise. Spenser.

The three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) of South America. See Sloth.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.] Shak.

ming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

ven place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

ance, or belonging, to another country; a foreign-born resident of a country in which he does not posses the privileges of a citizen. Hence, a stranger. See Alienage.

An animal whose toes are connected by a membrane, serving for a wing, as the bat.

An aliquant part of a number or quantity is one which does not divide it without leaving a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquant part of