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A resting place. [Obs.] These quails have their set gists; to wit, ordinary resting and baiting places. Holland.

One versed in aërology.

To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone.

See Agister.

Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker.

A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.

One versed or engaged in agriology.

One skilled in agrostology.

One learned about algæ; a student of algology.

One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne.

One who compiles an anthology.

One who is versed in anthropology.

Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [Obs.] South.

An opposer of the theory of phlogiston.

Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.

Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame.

A student of bees. [R.] Emerson.

One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity.

A prince to whom an appanage has been granted.

One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology.