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One versed in æsthetics.

The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell.

The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art.

The science of sensation in relation to nervous action. H. Spenser.

Of or belonging to the summer; as, æstival diseases. [Spelt also estival.]

To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]

petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

See Estuary.

Glowing; agitated, as with heat.

To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.

The act of converting into forest or woodland. Blackstone.

To heap up. [Obs.] The violence of the waters aggested the earth. Fuller.

fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. "Agrestic behavior." Gregory.

Agrestic. [Obs.]

Same as Alkahest.

Most beloved. [Obs.] Shak.

A stake or pole projecting from, or set up before, an alehouse, as a sign; an alepole. At the end was commonly suspended a garland, a bunch of leaves, or a "bush." [Obs.] Chaucer.

The fabled "universal solvent" of the alchemists; a menstruum capable of dissolving all bodies. -- Al`ka*hes"tic, a.

The celebrated work of Ptolemy of Alexandria, which contains nearly all that is known of the astronomical observations and theories of the ancients. The name was extended to other similar works.

Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.