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Of or pertaining to Africa. African hemp, a fiber prerared from the leaves of the Sanseviera Guineensis, a plant found in Africa and India. -- African marigold, a tropical American plant (Tagetes erecta). -- African oak or African teak, a timber furnished by Oldfieldia Africana, used in ship building. African violet…

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] "To aggravate thy store." Shak.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

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

, as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it. Each at the head leveled his deadly aim. Milton.

roduction of the effect of the atmospheric medium through which every object in nature is viewed. New Am. Cyc.

Depending on some uncertain contingency; as, an aleatory contract. Bouvier.

An instrument for viewing pictures by means of a lens, so as to present them in their natural proportions and relations.

t resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view, and we are left to collect the intentions of the writer or speaker by the resemblance of the secondary to the primary subject.

ent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus opposed to feud. Blackstone. Bouvier.

At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away. Our palace stood aloof from streets. Dryden.

A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and at a lower level.

Pertaining to a walk. [R.] The princess of whom his majesty had an ambulatory view in his travels. Sir H. Wotton.

To station in ambush with a view to surprise an enemy. By ambushed men behind their temple Dryden.

the purpose of obtaining a decision of the court on some matter of law involved in it. Bouvier. Burrill. -- Amicable numbers (Math.), two numbers, each of which is equal to the sum of all the aliquot parts of the other.

ithout any amplification at all, show in what manner defects have been supplied. Sir J. Davies.

separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

strous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image.

Compound interest. [R.] Bouvier.

Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary. The Convocation of York seems to have been always considered as inferior, and even ancillary, to the greater province. Hallam.