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To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

One who aggrandizes, or makes great.

Exaggerated representation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.

t; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.] The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.

To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated. The mind of man is agitated by various passions. Johnson.

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

Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

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

Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay.

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

A hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.

y to agree or consent. [Colloq.] These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott.

The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, and ponderable.

n the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus.

An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.

A stove for heating a current of air which is directed against its surface by means of pipes, and then distributed through a building.