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Agreement to adhere; concurrence; assent. To that treaty Spain and England gave in their adhesion. Macaulay.

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

el; advise; information. [Archaic] And mused awhile, waking advisement takes of what had passed in sleep. Daniel.

An aëroplane or airship designed to carry passengers.

To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.

to assert or confirm, as a judgment, decree, or order, brought before an appelate court for review.

Capable of being affirmed, asserted, or declared; -- followed by of; as, an attribute affirmable of every just man.

One who affirms or asserts.

The act of affirming or asserting as true; assertion; -- opposed to negation or denial.

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.

Giving affirmation; assertive; affirmative. Massey.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc.

That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies. Specifically: (Theol.)

An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.

To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

l*ly, adv. Agricultural ant (Zoöl.), a species of ant which gathers and stores seeds of grasses, for food. The remarkable species (Myrmica barbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

A description of the grasses.

That part of botany which treats of the grasses.