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

erican 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.

An unmarried person; also, one opposed to marriage. Foxe.

Exchange business; also, 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.

f men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.

An inflammation or sore under or around the nail; also, a hangnail.

Related or akin by the father's side; also, sprung from the same male ancestor.

Paronomasia; also, alliteration; annomination.

The name is also given to various other plants; as, hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum); water agrimony (Bidens).

A subsidy granted to the king by Parliament; also, an exchequer loan.

An officer selected by a general to carry orders, also to assist or represent him in correspondence and in directing movements.

A contraction for are not and am not; also used for is not. [Colloq. or llliterate speech]. See An't.

A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space; also, a pump to condense air of force in into a closed space.

Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.

The bone of the rump; also, the cut of beef surrounding this bone. [Spelt also edgebone.]

h as a medicine and as a condiment. An oil containing thymol is extracted from it. Called also Javanee seed, Javanese seed, and ajava.

Of or pertaining to wings; also, wing-shaped. The alary system of insects. Wollaston.

iterranean and Atlantic, is called in New England the horse mackerel; the tunny. [Written also albacore.]