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To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances. Paley.

Possible to be done; practicable. [Obs.] "Fit for agible things." Sir A. Sherley.

Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W.

The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W.

A illiterate person. [Obs.] Bailey.

of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

Agriculture. [Obs.] Bailey.

A cultivator of the soil; an agriculturist. Dodsley.

Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

and worm still. Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination. Brimley.

Cold; chilly. Bailey. Algid cholera (Med.), Asiatic cholera.

Applied to those days when the holy sacrifice is not offered. Shipley.

Enticement; allurement. [Obs.] Bailey.

the want of the sense of hearing is much alleviated by giving the use of letters. Bp. Horsley.

location of the particular portions of Palestine to its successive inhabitants. A. R. Stanley.

See Alley, a marble or taw.

ho rejected St. John's Gospel and the Apocalypse, which speak of Christ as the Logos. Shipley.

God, by whose alone power and conversation we all live, and move, and have our being. Bentley.

he profit which accrues to the priest, by reason of the altar, from the small tithes. Shipley.