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One born in Africa, the offspring of a white father and a "colored" mother. Also, and now commonly in Southern Africa, a native born of European settlers.

Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.

onsequence to avoid, etc. Hersche Again and again, more than once; often; repeatedly. -- Now and again, now and then; occasionally. -- To and again, to and fro. [Obs.] De Foe.

Reproducing or produced without sexual union. -- Ag`a*mo*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv. All known agamogenetic processes end in a complete return to the primitive stock. Huxley.

row to; to afflict; hence, to oppress or injure in one's rights; to bear heavily upon; -- now commonly used in the passive TO be aggrieved. Aggrieved by oppression and extortion. Macaulay.

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

n; earnest discussion; debate. A logical agitation of the matter. L'Estrange. The project now in agitation. Swift.

Acknowledgment. [Obs.] Grafton.

To recognize; to acknowledge. [Archaic] I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity. Shak.

One who professes ignorance, or denies that we have any knowledge, save of phenomena; one who supports agnosticism, neither affirming nor denying the existence of a personal Deity, a future life, etc.

rbata) found in Texas clears circular areas and carefully cultivates its favorite grain, known as ant rice.

ving the qualities of an ague; somewhat cold or shivering; chilly; shaky. Her aguish love now glows and burns. Granville.

to be the matter with; -- used to express some uneasiness or affection, whose cause is unknown; as, what ails the man I know not what ails him. What aileth thee, Hagar Gen. xxi. 17.

the sake of public notice; to display ostentatiously; as, to air one's opinion. Airing a snowy hand and signet gem. Tennyson.

Divination by means of barley meal. Knowles.

See Alarm. [Now Poetic]

The Mohammedan Scriptures; the Koran (now the usual form). [Spelt also Alcoran.]

the eye of Taurus; the Bull's Eye. It is the bright star in the group called the Hyades. Now when Aldebaran was mounted high Above the shiny Cassiopeia's chair. Spenser.

of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works.

The language of the Alemanni. The Swabian dialect . . . is known as the Alemannic. Amer. Cyc.