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To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences. [Obs.]

An agriculturist; a farmer. [R.]

ecies (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

he harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

A genus of plants of the Rose family.

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

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

formerly worn on the shoulders of knights, -- being the prototype of the modern epaulet. Fairholt.

Carriage; attitude; action; movement; as, the head of that portrait has a good air. Fairholt.

A faucet to allow escape of air.

A fault in a casting, produced by a bubble of air; a blowhole.

Without reality; having no solid foundation; empty; trifling; visionary. "Airy fame." Shak. Empty sound, and airy notions. Roscommon.

Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.

According to the fashion or prevailing mode. "Alamode beef shops." Macaulay.

teness. Specifically: (Astron.) The ratio which the light reflected from an unpolished surface bears to the total light falling upon that surface.

A name applied to several large fishes of the Mackerel family, esp. Orcynus alalonga. One species (Orcynus thynnus), common in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]

A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization, and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a common constituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.

culous power of transmuting something common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.