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To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

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.

To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)

A inferior brandy of Spain and Portugal.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

Odoriferous or contaminated air.

One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds, which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of the lungs; an air cell.

A box or vessel for holding odoriferous ointments, etc.; -- so called from the stone of which it was originally made. Fosbroke.

y rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinou…

An intoxicating liquor made from an infusion of malt by fermentation and the addition of a bitter, usually hops.

ack, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

An inferior officer of justice in Spain; a warrant officer; a constable. Prescott.

Same as Almug (and etymologically preferable). 2 Chron. ii. 8.

Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, alias Simpson.

Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion. An alien sound of melancholy. Wordsworth. Alien enemy (Law), one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. Abbott.

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

The state of being alienated or transferred to another. Brougham.

To convey or transfer to another, as title, property, or right; to part voluntarily with ownership of.

A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another.