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; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, coceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor.

A saltish concretion on reeds and grass in marshy grounds in Galatia. It is soft and porous, and was formerly used for cleansing the skin from freckles and tetters, and also in leprosy. Dana.

s and ceremonies to be indifferent or nonessential, which Luther condemned as sinful or heretical. Murdock.

his canvas straining to the wind, and all his thunders roaring from his broadsides. E. Everett.

ishing one another in psalms and hymns. Col. iii. 16. I warned thee, I admonished thee, foretold The danger, and the lurking enemy. Milton.

A receiver, with two necks, opposite to each other, one of which admits the neck of a retort, and the other is joined to another receiver. It is used in distillations, to give more space to elastic vapors, to increase the length of the neck of a retort, or to unite two vessels whose openings have different diameters. […

A social pretender on the lookout for advancement.

To make a show of; to put on a pretense of; to feign; to assume; as, to affect ignorance. Careless she is with artful care, Affecting to seem unaffected. Congreve. Thou dost affect my manners. Shak.

Given to false show; assuming or pretending to posses what is not natural or real. He is . . . too spruce, too affected, too odd. Shak.

One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.

Passion; violent emotion. [Obs.] Most wretched man, That to affections does the bridle lend. Spenser.

s tuneful Muse affords the sweetest numbers. Addison. The quiet lanes . . . afford calmer retreats. Gilpin.

The impression of a vivid sensation retained by the retina of the eye after the cause has been removed; also extended to impressions left of tones, smells, etc.

In return, back; as, bring us word again.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

ion. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion. Abbott.

or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

(Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.