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Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago.

In eager desire; eager; astir. All agog to dash through thick and thin. Cowper.

In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.

A contest for a prize at the public games.

Ago. [Archaic. & Poet.] Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.

Not forming an angle. Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere.

Contention for a prize; a contest. [Obs.] Blount.

One who contends for the prize in public games. [R.]

ained; unnatural. As a scholar, he [Dr. Parr] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.

In an agonistic manner.

The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.

To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope.

With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.

An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.

Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.

Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay.

In earnest; heartily. [Obs.] "I made her weep agood." Shak.

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

The crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), found in the tropical parts of America.

A small insectivorous mammal (Solenodon paradoxus), allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.