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A strong declaration; affirmation. Cowper.

ce, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper.

y to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue. Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.

, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper.

In eager desire; eager; astir. All agog to dash through thick and thin. Cowper.

d by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind. "A joy akin to rapture." Cowper. The literary character of the work is akin to its moral character. Jeffrey.

ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower. Cowper.

An illuminator of manuscripts and books; a limner. [Obs.] Cowell.

fading, as the poetic amaranth; undying. They only amaranthine flower on earth Is virtue. Cowper.

A juror who takes money from both parties for giving his verdict. Cowell.

of seeing this ceremony. Evelyn. Studious of song, and yet ambitious not to sing in vain. Cowper.

ity and commerce; the amity of the Whigs and Tories. To live on terms of amity with vice. Cowper.

power; a state of lawlessness; political confusion. Spread anarchy and terror all around. Cowper.

Furnished with antlers. The antlered stag. Cowper.

Terror; dismay. [Poet.] Cowper.

k of an eagle; -- applied particularly to the nose Terribly arched and aquiline his nose. Cowper.

whose power of deciding and governing is not limited. For Jove is arbiter of both to man. Cowper.

The award of arbitrators. Cowell.

Of or pertaining to a tree, or to trees; of nature of trees. Cowley.

Fig.: Any region or scene of simple pleasure and untroubled quiet. Where the cow is, there is Arcadia. J. Burroughs.