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Affright; the state of being frightened; sudden fear or alarm. [Archaic] Passionate words or blows . . . fill the child's mind with terror and affrightment. Locke.

to confront; as, to confront; as, to affront death; hence, to meet in hostile encounter. [Archaic]

Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak.

In the fore part of a vessel.

Beforehand; in anticipation. [Archaic or Dial.] She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.

Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life. Marshall.

Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, half as much again.

Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale.

A soft, resinous wood (Aquilaria Agallocha) of highly aromatic smell, burnt by the orientals as a perfume. It is called also agalwood and aloes wood. The name is also given to some other species.

A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.

A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceæ) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice…

Gazing with astonishment; amazed. [Obs.] The whole army stood agazed on him. Shak.

That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth

Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

niting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.

Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, t…

Oppression; hardship; injury; grievance. [Archaic]

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds. Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life. Landor.