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Later in time; subsequent; as, after supper, after three days. It often precedes a clause. Formerly that was interposed between it and the clause. After I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee. Matt. xxvi. 32.

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

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

some age or other, will find her witness. Milton. Archeological 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, B…

One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor. Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill. Dryden.

Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

A species of Vitex (V. agnus castus); the chaste tree. Loudon. And wreaths of agnus castus others bore. Dryden.

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

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

e writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44.

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

t, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so called from the use of its root formerly, in cases of ague. [Obs.]

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

A genus of beautiful trees, natives of the East Indies. The tree imperfectly di

Air in motion; a light breeze; a gentle wind. Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play. Pope.

Not open to a free current of air; wanting fresh air, or communication with the open air.

A grayish green antiseptic powder, consisting of a basic iodide and gallate of bismuth, sometimes used in place of iodoform. [A Trademark]

Open to a free current of air; exposed to the air; breezy; as, an airy situation.

Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

sle, in a river or lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.