Search the Dictionary

Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.

ds, or their tenure; esp., relating to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.

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

To distribute according to, or to imbue with, the principles of agrarianism.

Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas…

An agriculturist (which is the preferred form.)

Pertaining to agrostography.

A description of the grasses.

A railway brake operated by condensed air. Knight.

Drawn in air; imaginary. This is the air-drawn dagger. Shak.

Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

The imaginary milk-white animal on which Mohammed was said to have been carried up to heaven; a white mule.

Dung of dogs or hyenas, which becomes white by exposure to air. It is used in dressing leather, and was formerly used in medicine.

A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids by evaporation from the exterior surface.

The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]

Of or pertaining to the Koran.

One who adheres to the letter of the Koran, rejecting all traditions.

rus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.