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Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.

Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.

Agency. Beau. & Fl.

An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.

An intermediate agent.

nze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

A substance capable of producing with another a reaction, especially when employed to detect the presence of other bodies; a test.

A person employed by an agent to transact the whole, or a part, of the business intrusted to the latter. Bouvier. Chitty.

A subordinate agent.

A drug or an agent that causes premature delivery.

To send with letters credential, as an ambassador, envoy, or diplomatic agent; to authorize, as a messenger or delegate. Beton . . . was accredited to the Court of France. Froude.

nations, or the fact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weight of reagent is required. -- Ac`id*i*met"ric*al, a.

A medicine or agent to assist hearing.

To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. (a) To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. (b) To direct one's speech or discourse to.

That which is used to adulterate anything. -- a. Adulterating; as, adulterant agents and processes.

The office of an agent, or factor; the relation between a principal and his agent; business of one intrusted with the concerns of another.

lso in many plants. It is soluble in water is coagulated by heat ad by certain chemical reagents. Acid albumin, a modification of albumin produced by the action of dilute acids. It is not coagulated by heat. -- Alkali albumin, albumin as modified by the action of alkaline substances; -- called also albuminate.…

Capable of rendering insensible; as, anæsthetic agents.

count; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that . . . he can not be justly punished, but is answerable only to God Swift.

A suffix sometimes marking the agent for action; as, merchant, covenant, servant, pleasant, etc. Cf. -ent.