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A woman who violates her religious engagements. James iv. 4.

The arrangement of the petals in a flower bud, as to folding, overlapping, etc.; prefloration. Gray. [Spelt also estivation.]

An action or engagement not of sufficient magnitude to be called a battle.

state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family.

Arrangement in a group or in groups; grouping.

A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.

nce of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

The science of the distribution and management of land.

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

A chill, or state of shaking, as with cold. Dryden. Ague cake, an enlargement of the spleen produced by ague. -- Ague drop, a solution of the arsenite of potassa used for ague. -- Ague fit, a fit of the ague. Shak. -- Ague spell, a spell or charm against ague. Gay. -- Ague tree, the sassafras, -- sometimes so calle…

A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott.

tice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. Airing a snowy hand and signet gem. Tennyson.

A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon.

The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron.

The act of putting one thing to another; a placing; disposition; arrangement. Hallam.

rder of, the letters of the alphabet; as, alphabetic characters, writing, languages, arrangement.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

riendliness; after the manner of friends; peaceable; as, an amicable disposition, or arrangement. That which was most remarkable in this contest was . . . the amicable manner in which it was managed. Prideoux. Amicable action (Law.), an action commenced and prosecuted by amicable consent of the parties, for the purpose…