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count; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.

An agent that destroys offensive smells; a deodorizer.

An antidiphtheritic agent.

An antihypnotic agent.

An antispastic agent.

An agent so used.

The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio.

A bailiff or steward; an agent. [Obs.] Jacobs.

(Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death or the use of reagents and not present during life.

In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.

As a noun suffix, it marks the agent; as, curate, delegate. It also sometimes marks the office or dignity; as, tribunate.

The beginning of corrosive, decomposing, or destructive action, by a chemical agent.

ne who attends or accompanies in any character whatever, as a friend, companion, servant, agent, or suitor. "A train of attendants." Hallam.

A substitute; a proxy; an agent. [Obs.] And will have no attorney but myself. Shak.

The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another. Shak.

Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent.

ltiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus.

ore in a revolving barrel, or drum, with mercury, chlorine, cyanide solution, or other reagent.

To throw into utter disorder and confusion, as if by the agency of evil spirits; to bring under diabolical influence; to torment. Bedeviled and used worse than St. Bartholomew. Sterne.