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See Astrictory.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

One who adulterates or corrupts. [R.] Cudworth.

Of or pertaining to an advocate. [R.]

That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.

Lacking milk to suckle with.

A soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

One who aggregates.

See Agister.

lected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

Sung or played in a restless, hurried, and spasmodic manner.

One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

An agriculturist; a farmer. [R.]

Pertaining to agrostography.

A description of the grasses.

Pertaining to agrostology.

One skilled in agrostology.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.