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, as an allegation which it is impossible to deny; to own or confess; as, the argument or fact is admitted; he admitted his guilt.

and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

The science of measuring the air, including the doctrine of its pressure, elasticity, rarefaction, and condensation; pneumatics.

To connect in the way of descent; to trace origin to. How do these facts tend to affiliate the faculty of hearing upon the aboriginal vegetative processes H. Spencer.

To declare, as a fact, solemnly, under judicial sanction. See Affirmation, 4.

That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote.

The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.

Applied to a kind of variegated glass beads of ancient manufacture; as, aggry beads are found in Ashantee and Fantee in Africa.

To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences. [Obs.]

The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.

h of agriculture dealing with the methods of conversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles; agricultural technology.

Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.

To bring forward with positiveness; to declare; to affirm; to assert; as, to allege a fact.

A microörganism (Bacillus amylobacter) which develops in vegetable tissue during putrefaction. Sternberg.

A particular or detached incident or fact of an interesting nature; a biographical incident or fragment; a single passage of private life.

iety of the domestic goat, reared for its long silky hair, which is highly prized for manufacture.

orless, oily liquid, originally obtained from indigo by distillation, but now largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.

A disease due to inhaling the poisonous fumes present in the manufacture of aniline.

Nameless; of unknown name; also, of unknown /or unavowed authorship; as, an anonymous benefactor; an anonymous pamphlet or letter.