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Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms.

To affect with pain or uneasiness, either physical or mental; to trouble; to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.

A soft ornamental terra-cotta pottery, sold in the biscuit state for decorating.

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

Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as, alienation of mind.

Pertaining to aliment or food, or to the function of nutrition; nutritious; alimental; as, alimentary substances. Alimentary canal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles); to mitigate, or make easier to be endured; as, to alleviate sorrow, pain, care, etc. ; -- opposed to aggravate. The calamity of the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley.

To agitate; to affect mentally. [Obs.] Milton.

An ornamental shrub (Hibiscus Syriacus) of the Mallow family.

t sung by the lowest female, or contralto, voices, between in tenor and soprano. In instrumental music it now signifies the tenor.

A genus of ornamental annual plants (Amaranthus) of many species, with green, purplish, or crimson flowers.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

Hence: A full collection or set of implements, or utensils, for a given duty, experimental or operative; any complex instrument or appliance, mechanical or chemical, for a specific action or operation; machinery; mechanism.

A small ornamental piece of embroidery worn on albs and some other ecclesiastical vestments.

The cultivation of trees and shrubs, chiefly for timber or for ornamental purposes.

e; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed. Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. Pope.