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Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

Pertaining to fields, or lands, or their tenure; esp., relating to am equal or equitable division of lands; as, the agrarian laws of Rome, which distributed the conquered and other public lands among citizens. His Grace's landed possessions are irresistibly inviting to an agrarian experiment. Burke.…

To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.

to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith.

Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person.

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

Of or pertaining to agriculture; connected with, or engaged in, tillage; as, the agricultural class; agricultural implements, wages, etc. -- Ag`ri*cul"tur*al*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas…

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

Pertaining to agrostography.

Pertaining to agrostology.

The Evil Principle or Being of the ancient Persians; the Prince of Darkness as opposer to Ormuzd, the King of Light.

Perhaps; possibly. [Scotch] Burns.

To support, either by furnishing strength or means in coöperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist. You speedy helpers . . . Appear and aid me in this enterprise. Shak.

or an arrow, the fist or a blow (at something); to aim a satire or a reflection (at some person or vice).

t songs, etc., the part which bears the tune or melody -- in modern harmony usually the upper part -- is sometimes called the air.

Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

A jacket having air-tight cells, or cavities which can be filled with air, to render persons buoyant in swimming.

A thoughtless, gay person. [Obs.] "Slight airlings." B. Jonson.