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Anew; again; once more; newly. They crucify . . . the Son of God afresh. Heb. vi. 6.

One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

takes after his father. To name or call after, to name like and reference to. Our eldest son was named George after his uncle. Goldsmith.

An unexpected subsequent event; something disagreeable happening after an affair is supposed to be at an end. Spenser.

On the other hand. "The one is my sovereign . . . the other again is my kinsman." Shak.

From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.

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 soft, compact stone, of a grayish, greenish, or yellowish color, carved into images by the Chinese, and hence called figure stone, and pagodite. It is probably a variety of pinite.

A South American bird (Psophia crepitans), allied to the cranes, and easily domesticated; -- called also the gold-breasted trumpeter. Its body is about the size of the pheasant. See Trumpeter.

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

A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. [Obs.] Shak.

rs, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.…

Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age. Abbott.

Something to be done; in the pl., a memorandum book.

To favor; to grace. [Obs.] "That knight so much aggraced." Spenser.

To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

se; -- used of evils, natural or moral; the act of increasing in severity or heinousness; something additional to a crime or wrong and enhancing its guilt or injurious consequences.

To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. "The aggregated soil." Milton.

Gregarious; social. [R.] Carlyle.