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Pertaining to aërography; aërological.

A description of the air or atmosphere; aërology.

Treatment of disease by the use of air or other gases.

Same as Ethiops mineral. [Obs.]

To make free; to enfranchise. Johnson.

The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]

To strike, or strike down. [Obs.] Spenser.

To startle from quiet; to alarm. Smale foules a great heap That had afrayed [affrayed] me out of my sleep. Chaucer.

One engaged in an affray.

Affray. [Obs.] Spenser.

Impressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.

A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.

The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.

To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.

A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]

a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.

The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton.

s. Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge.