<B>agentry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the business of an agent. </DL>
<A NAME="ageofaquarius">
<B>Age of Aquarius,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in astrology) an age of unprecedented freedom and fellowship now newly dawning upon earth. </DL>
<A NAME="ageofconsent">
<B>age of consent,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the minimum age, as fixed by law, at which a person is considered competent to act in his or her own behalf, as in marriage. </DL>
<A NAME="ageofdiscretion">
<B>age of discretion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) fourteen years. </DL>
<A NAME="ageoffishes">
<B>Age of Fishes,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Devonian age. </DL>
<A NAME="ageofmammals">
<B>Age of Mammals,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Cenozoic age. </DL>
<A NAME="ageofreason">
<B>Age of Reason,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the period in Europe from the 1600's to the late 1700's in which philosophers emphasized the use of reason as the best method of learning truth. John Locke, Descartes, Diderot, Rousseau, and Voltaire were leaders. </DL>
<A NAME="ageofreptiles">
<B>Age of Reptiles,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the Mesozoic age. </DL>
<A NAME="ageold">
<B>age-old, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having existed for a very long time; very old; ancient. <BR> <I>Ex. age-old customs.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ageratum">
<B>ageratum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a genus of chiefly tropical American garden plants of the composite family. Certain species have small, dense flower heads, usually blue, sometimes white or pinkish. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several other composite plants, usually having blue flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="ages">
<B>ages, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>age.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ageusia">
<B>ageusia, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> partial or total loss of the sense of taste. </DL>
<A NAME="agger">
<B>agger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mound of earth, especially an earthen rampart around an ancient Roman camp. <DD><B> 2. </B>a Roman road. </DL>
<A NAME="aggeus">
<B>Aggeus, </B>noun. <B>=Haggai </B>(in the Douay Bible).</DL>
<A NAME="aggie">
<B>Aggie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>Usually, <B>Aggies,</B> <I>pl.</I> a group representing an agricultural college, such as an athletic team. <DD><B> 2. </B>a student at an agricultural college. </DL>
<A NAME="aggie">
<B>aggie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a playing marble made of agate. </DL>
<A NAME="aggiornamento">
<B>aggiornamento, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Italian.) (in the Roman Catholic Church) the modernization of old customs and practices. <DD><B> 2. </B>(literally) an updating. </DL>
<A NAME="agglomerate">
<B>agglomerate, </B>verb, <B>-ated, -ating,</B> noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to gather together in a mass; cluster or heap together; gather; amass. (SYN) accumulate, collect. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a loose or rough mass or collection; a cluster. <BR> <I>Ex. The United States ... has always been an agglomerate of peoples who came--or whose ancestors came--from different lands to find their future (C. L. Sulzberger).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a rock of angular volcanic fragments fused by heat. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>packed together in a mass. <DD><B> 2. </B>gathered into a cluster or mass, but not cohering, as some types of flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="agglomeratic">
<B>agglomeratic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) having the nature of an agglomerate. </DL>
<A NAME="agglomeration">
<B>agglomeration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mass of things gathered or clustered together. <BR> <I>Ex. an agglomeration of stars. The buildings are huge agglomerations of aluminum and glass (David Boroff).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the act of agglomerating. <DD><B> 3. </B>an agglomerated condition. </DL>
<A NAME="agglomerative">
<B>agglomerative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> tending to agglomerate. </DL>
<A NAME="agglutinable">
<B>agglutinable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be agglutinated. </DL>
<A NAME="agglutinant">
<B>agglutinant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> uniting closely, as glue; adhesive. <DD><I>noun </I> any sticky or viscous substance that causes objects to stick together. </DL>
<A NAME="agglutinate">
<B>agglutinate, </B>verb, <B>-nated,</B> <B>-nating,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to unite or fasten as with glue; stick or join together. (SYN) cement. <DD><B> 2. </B>to form (words) by joining words, or words and affixes, together with little or no change in form. (SYN) compound. <DD><B> 3. </B>(in immunology) to cause (cells) to clump together. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to become agglutinated; join or clump together; undergo agglutination. <DD><B> 2. </B>to turn into glue. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>stuck or joined together. <BR> <I>Ex. "Never-to-be-forgotten" is an agglutinate word.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>agglutinative (def. 2). </DL>
<A NAME="agglutinatinglanguage">
<B>agglutinating language,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a language characterized by combining into a single word fixed combining forms that never blend with one another. The Finno-Ugric languages are agglutinating languages. </DL>
<A NAME="agglutination">
<B>agglutination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the process of agglutinating, especially the clumping together of bacteria or red blood cells, caused usually by the introduction of antibodies to such cells. <DD><B> 2. </B>an agglutinated condition. <DD><B> 3. </B>a mass or group formed by the sticking together of separate things. <DD><B> 4. </B>the forming of words by joining together words that retain their individual form and meaning. </DL>
<A NAME="agglutinative">
<B>agglutinative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>tending to stick together; adhesive. <BR> <I>Ex. Glue is an agglutinative substance.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>forming words by agglutination. <BR> <I>Ex. Turkish is probably the most highly agglutinative tongue now spoken by men (Simeon Potter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="agglutinin">
<B>agglutinin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an antibody that causes bacteria or blood cells to stick together in clumps. </DL>
<A NAME="agglutinogen">
<B>agglutinogen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of antigens that stimulate the production of agglutinins. </DL>
<A NAME="aggradation">
<B>aggradation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) the filling up of a bay, valley, or the like with silt or other debris from a stream, river, or sea, thus raising its level. </DL>
<A NAME="aggradational">
<B>aggradational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) of or having to do with the process of aggradation. </DL>
<A NAME="aggrade">
<B>aggrade, </B>verb, <B>-graded,</B> <B>-grading.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Geology.) <DD><I>v.t. </I> to raise the level of (a bay, valley, or other enclosed area) by filling it up with silt or other debris. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to raise the level of a bay, valley, or other enclosed area. </DL>
<A NAME="aggrandizable">
<B>aggrandizable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that can be aggrandized. </DL>
<A NAME="aggrandize">
<B>aggrandize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-dized,</B> <B>-dizing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to make greater or larger in power; increase the rank or wealth of. <BR> <I>Ex. The dictator sought to aggrandize himself by new conquests.</I> (SYN) exalt. <DD><B> 2. </B>to increase in size or intensity; magnify; enlarge. (SYN) augment, enhance. noun <B>aggrandizer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="aggrandizement">
<B>aggrandizement, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a making greater, larger, or more powerful. <BR> <I>Ex. Production in a free country can always suffer because under monolithic government all production can go to the aggrandizement of the state (William Faulkner).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an increase in power, wealth, rank, or the like. </DL>
<A NAME="aggravate">
<B>aggravate, </B>transitive verb, <B>-vated,</B> <B>-vating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1a. </B>to make worse or more severe. <BR> <I>Ex. His bad temper was aggravated by a headache.</I> (SYN) increase, augment, intensify, exacerbate. <DD><B> b. </B>to make more burdensome or more offensive. <BR> <I>Ex. A lie will only aggravate your guilt.</I> (SYN) increase, augment, intensify, exacerbate. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) to annoy; irritate; exasperate. <BR> <I>Ex. He aggravated his sister by pulling her hair. The whispering in class aggravates our teacher.</I> (SYN) provoke. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) to add weight to. adv. <B>aggravatingly.</B> noun <B>aggravator.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="aggravatedassault">
<B>aggravated assault,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) assault committed with the intention of committing an additional offense. <BR> <I>Ex. Aggravated assault includes assault with intent to kill or to inflict serious bodily injury, whether or not a dangerous weapon is used (Morris and Hawkins).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="aggravation">
<B>aggravation, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the act of making worse or more severe. <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition of being made worse or more severe. <DD><B> 3. </B>something that aggravates, such as a circumstance that adds to the unpleasantness of anything or intensifies an evil. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) an annoyance; irritation, or other exasperation. </DL>
<A NAME="aggravative">
<B>aggravative, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that tends to aggravate. </DL>
<A NAME="aggregable">
<B>aggregable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> that may be aggregated or lumped together (with other property). <BR> <I>Ex. Parliamentary estates were aggregable with the marriage settlement funds (Westminster Gazette).</I> </DL>
