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Provocation; irritation. [Colloq.] Dickens.

To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends. [Obs.] Spenser.

Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.

e or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.

Alike; similarly. [Obs.] Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser.

en to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

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

To dress; to attire; to adorn. [Obs.] Above all knights ye goodly seem aguised. Spenser.

See Aglet. Spenser.

lar state of the atmosphere, as respects heat, cold, moisture, etc., or as affecting the sensations; as, a smoky air, a damp air, the morning air, etc.

A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.

A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; a pneumatic drill. Knight.

A kind of gun in which the elastic force of condensed air is used to discharge the ball. The air is powerfully compressed into a reservoir attached to the gun, by a condensing pump, and is controlled by a valve actuated by the trigger.

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air of force in into a closed space.

eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.

Sudden surprise with fear or terror excited by apprehension of danger; in the military use, commonly, sudden apprehension of being attacked by surprise. Alarm and resentment spread throughout the camp. Macaulay.

Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehension of danger; as, an alarming crisis or report. -- A*larm"ing*ly, adv.