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One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

se, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton.

In front; face to face. -- prep. In front of. Shak.

er of; as, to make a thing after a model; a picture after Rubens; the boy takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.

Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

Failure of the due secretion of milk after childbirth.

One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc. Shak.

The faculty of acting or of exerting power; the state of being in action; action; instrumentality. The superintendence and agency of Providence in the natural world. Woodward.

authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.

Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell.

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

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

Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.

One in favor of an equal division of landed property.

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.