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To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

To please. [Obs.] Each one sought his lady to aggrate. Spenser.

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase. [Obs.] "To aggravate thy store." Shak.

An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

A disease occurring in Bengal and other parts of the East Indies, in which the tongue chaps and cleaves.

Indisposition; morbid affection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

A morbid condition due to excessive increase of albuminous elements in the blood.

to transmute the baser metals into gold, to find the panacea, or universal remedy for diseases, etc. It led the way to modern chemistry.

A diseased condition of the system, brought about by the continued use of alcoholic liquors.

As used by some, inability to read aloud, due to brain disease.

A preservative against contagious and infectious diseases, and the effects of poison in general. Brande & C.

The study or treatment of diseases of the mind.

One who treats diseases of the mind. Ed. Rev.

e under Along. -- All and some, individually and collectively, one and all. [Obs.] "Displeased all and some." Fairfax. -- All but. (a) Scarcely; not even. [Obs.] Shak. (b) Almost; nearly. "The fine arts were all but proscribed." Macaulay. -- All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low] --…

To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.

That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy.

To like; to be suited or pleased with. [Obs.] How allow you the model of these clothes Massinger.

To form a metallic compound. Gold and iron alloy with ease. Ure.

me is not along thin evil fare." Chaucer. "And all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.

Pertaining to the Alps, or other high mountains; as, Alpestrine diseases, etc.