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Ago. [Archaic. & Poet.] Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.

istent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne.

An exclamation expressive of sorrow. [Archaic. or Poet.] Shak.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry. In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.

Pertaining to Alcæus, a lyric poet of Mitylene, about 6000 b. c. -- n. A kind of verse, so called from Alcæus. One variety consists of five feet, a spondee or iambic, an iambic, a long syllable, and two dactyls.

iven place to the retort and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

Even; just. (Often a mere intensive adjunct.) [Obs. or Poet.] All as his straying flock he fed. Spenser. A damsel lay deploring All on a rock reclined. Gay. All to, or All-to. In such phrases as "all to rent," "all to break," "all-to frozen," etc., which are of frequent occurrence in our old authors, the all and the to…

To salute; to greet. [Poet.] Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me "Thane of Cawdor." Shak.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, alliteration; as, alliterative poetry. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ly, adv. -- Al*lit"er*a*tive*ness, n.

Always. [Archaic or Poetic] I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.

An imaginary flower supposed never to fade. [Poetic]

Unfading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

Amatory. [Obs.] "Amatorious poem." Milton.

Bewilderment, arising from fear, surprise, or wonder; amazement. [Chiefly poetic] The wild, bewildered Of one to stone converted by amaze. Byron.

See Amianthus. [Poetic]

A poem in which persons are represented at speaking alternately; as the third and seventh eclogues of Virgil.

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

Angrily. [Obs. or Poetic] Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.

uce to the state of a lower animal; to sensualize. The unconscious irony of the Epicurean poet on the animalizing tendency of his own philosophy. Coleridge.