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- English Word Agastric Definition Having to stomach, or distinct digestive canal, as the tapeworm.
- English Word Agate Definition On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate.
- English Word Agate Definition A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds.
- English Word Agate Definition A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby.
- English Word Agate Definition A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals.
- English Word Agate Definition A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing.
- English Word Agatiferous Definition Containing or producing agates.
- English Word Agatine Definition Pertaining to, or like, agate.
- English Word Agatize Definition To convert into agate; to make resemble agate.
- English Word Agaty Definition Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.
- English Word Agave Definition A genus of plants (order Amaryllidaceae) of which the chief species is the maguey or century plant (A. Americana), wrongly called Aloe. It is from ten to seventy years, according to climate, in attaining maturity, when it produces a gigantic flower stem, sometimes forty feet in height, and perishes. The fermented juice is the pulque of the Mexicans; distilled, it yields mescal. A strong thread and a tough paper are made from the leaves, and the wood has many uses.
- English Word Agazed Definition Gazing with astonishment; amazed.
- English Word Age Definition The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
- English Word Age Definition That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; as, what is the present age of a man, or of the earth?
- English Word Age Definition The latter part of life; an advanced period of life; seniority; state of being old.
- English Word Age Definition One of the stages of life; as, the age of infancy, of youth, etc.
- English Word Age Definition Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities; as, to come of age; he (or she) is of age.
- English Word Age Definition The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested; as, the age of consent; the age of discretion.
- English Word Age Definition A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others; as, the golden age, the age of Pericles.
- English Word Age Definition A great period in the history of the Earth.
- English Word Age Definition A century; the period of one hundred years.
- English Word Age Definition The people who live at a particular period; hence, a generation.
- English Word Age Definition A long time.
- English Word Age Definition To grow aged; to become old; to show marks of age; as, he grew fat as he aged.
- English Word Age Definition To cause to grow old; to impart the characteristics of age to; as, grief ages us.
- English Word Aged Definition of Age
- English Word Aged Definition Old; having lived long; having lived almost to or beyond the usual time allotted to that species of being; as, an aged man; an aged oak.
- English Word Aged Definition Belonging to old age.
- English Word Aged Definition Having a certain age; at the age of; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.
- English Word Agedly Definition In the manner of an aged person.