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pressed with fear or apprehension; in fear; apprehensive. [Afraid comes after the noun it limits.] "Back they recoiled, afraid." Milton.

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

Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14.

A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.

A fucus or seaweed much used in the East for soups and jellies; Ceylon moss (Gracilaria lichenoides).

Pertaining to, or like, agate.

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

Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

A church service; a ritual or liturgy. [In this sense, usually Agenda.]

To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2.

s, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.

Exaggerated representation. By a little aggravation of the features changed it into the Saracen's head. Addison.

or 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.

Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength and agility of body. They . . . trust to the agility of their wit. Bacon. Wheeling with the agility of a hawk. Sir W. Scott.

o, stockjobbing; the maneuvers 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.

Pertaining to descent by the male line of ancestors. "The agnatic succession." Blackstone.

Consanguinity by a line of males only, as distinguished from cognation. Bouvier.