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wing, in search of; in pursuit of. Ye shall not go after other gods. Deut. vi. 14. After whom is the king of Israel come out 1 Sam. xxiv. 14.

cond moving; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season; rowen. Holland.

The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime. Mine age is as nothing before thee. Ps. xxxix. 5.

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

more offensive; to enhance; to intensify. "To aggravate my woes." Pope. To aggravate the horrors of the scene. Prescott. The defense made by the prisioner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime. Addison.

Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective.

To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.] The agility of the sun's fiery heat. Holland.

To move or actuate. [R.] Thomson.

A hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.

Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.

in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.

An intermittent fever, attended by alternate cold and hot fits.

In a heap; huddled together. Hood.

Hey; ho.

On horseback. Two suspicious fellows ahorseback. Smollet.