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An agent which promotes the discharge of bile from the system.

in me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents. Milton.

revolving disk, usually regulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of external agents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated or eliminated.

Agency in common; joint agency or agent. Coleridge.

ss of bodies formed in the coagulation of a albuminous substance by heat, acids, or other agents.

Having the power to cause coagulation; as, a coagulative agent. Boyle.

ncludes bills of exchange, promissory notes, bank cheks, etc. -- Commercial traveler, an agent of a wholesale house who travels from town to town to solicit orders.

The thing to be done as agent for another; as, I have three commissions for the city.

An agent or factor; a commission merchant.

A kind of steward or agent. [China] S. W. Williams

A report of an officer or agent.

nd been brought back in any manner to its original state, the whole work done by external agents on the system is equal to the whole work done by the system overcoming external forces. Clerk Maxwell.

To send or address (by bill of lading or otherwise) to an agent or correspondent in another place, to be cared for or sold, or for the use of such correspondent; as, to cosign a cargo or a ship; to set apart.

The act of consigning or sending property to an agent or correspondent in another place, as for care, sale, etc.

formed inside the prison) at a fixed price per day to contractors who are allowed to have agents in the prison to superintend the work.

An agent which counteracts the effect of a stimulant.

The action or effect of corrosive agents, or the process of corrosive change; as, the rusting of iron is a variety of corrosion. Corrosion is a particular species of dissolution of bodies, either by an acid or a saline menstruum. John Quincy.

A factor or agent resident in a country for traffic. Blount. (b) The book in which a corporation or other body registers its particular acts. [Obs.] Cowell.

e; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue. "Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle." I. Taylor. Counter approach (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach. -- Counter bo…

oms and duties are paid, and where vessels are entered or cleared. Customhouse broker, an agent who acts for merchants in the business of entering and clearing goods and vessels.