Emily Dickinson Lexicon

AG'GRE-GATE, v.t. [L. aggrego, to collect in troops; of ad and grex, a herd or band. See Gregarious.]

To bring together; to collect particulars into a sum, mass or body.

AG'GRE-GA-TED, pp.

Collected into a sum, mass or system.

AG'GRE-GATE-LY, adv.

Collectively; taken in a sum or mass.

AG'GRE-GA-TING, ppr.

Collecting into a sum or mass.

AG-GRE-GA'TION, n.

1. The act of aggregating; the state being collected into a sum or mass; a collection of particulars; an aggregate.
2. Aggregation is caused by that attraction which takes place at an insensible distance between the homogeneous particles of bodies, and forms masses.
3. The union and coherence of bodies of the same nature.

AG'GRE-GA-TIVE, a.

Taken together; collective.

AG'GRE-GA-TOR, n.

He that collects into a whole or mass. Burton.

AG-GRESS', v.i. [L. aggredior, aggressus, of ad and gradior, to go. See Grade.]

To make a first attack; to commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to assault first or invade. Prior.

AG-GRESS'ING, ppr.

Commencing hostility first; making the first attack.

AG-GRESS'ION, n.

The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or controversy. L'Estrange.

AG-GRESS'IVE, a.

Tending to aggress; making the first attack. Clarkson.

AG-GRESS'OR, n.

The person who first attacks; he who first commences hostility or a quarrel; an assaulter; an invader. Dryden. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.

AG'GRIEVE, v.i.

To mourn; to lament. [Not used. See Grieve.]

AG-GRIEVE', v.t. [of ad and grieve, from grief. Perhaps the word is borrowed directly from the Sp. agraviar, to injure; Fr. grever. See Grief and Grave.]

1. To give pain or sorrow; to afflict.
2. To bear hard upon; to oppress or injure in one's rights; to vex or harass by civil or political injustice.

AG-GROUP', or AG-GROOP', v.t. [Sp. agrupar; It. aggruppare, aggropare, to knot or bring together. See Group.]

To bring together; to group; to collect many persons in a crowd, or many figures into a whole, either in statuary, painting, or description. Encyc.

AG-GROUP'ED, or AG-GROOP'ED, pp.

Collected into a group or assemblage.

A-GHAST', a.

or adv. or more correctly AGAST [Perhaps the participle of agaze; otherwise from the root of ghastly and ghost.] Struck with amazement; stupefied with sudden fright or horror.

AG'ILE, a. [Fr. agile; L. agilis, from ago. See Act.]

Nimble; having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or ready to move; brisk; active. And bending forward, struck his agile heels. Shak.

A'GILE-IY, adv.

In a nimble manner.

AG'ILE-NESS, n.

Nimbleness; activity; the faculty of moving the limbs quickly.

A-GIL'I-TY, n. [L. agilitas.]

The power of moving the limbs quickly; nimbleness; briskness; activity; quickness of motion. Watts.

A-GIL'LO-CUM, n.

Aloes wood. Quincy.

A'GI-O, n. [Ital. aggio, surplus, difference.]

1. In commerce, the difference between bank notes and current coin. In Holland, the agio is three or four per cent; in Rome, from fifteen to twenty five per cent; in Venice, twenty per cent, but the agio is subject to variation. Encyc.
2. Premium; sum given above the nominal value. Lunier.

AGI-O-TAGE, n.

The maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.

A-GIST, v.t. [If the primary sense is to lie, or to rest, this is from Fr. gesir; Norm. agiser, to be levant and couchant, from giser, to lay or throw down; whence gist, cast; gistance, a casting. Class Gs. No. 18. If the primary signification is to feed, see Nos. 5, 6, 10, 12, and 56. Ch. Class Gs.]

In law, to take the cattle of others to graze at a certain sum; to feed or pasture the cattle of others; used originally for the feeding of cattle in the king's forests. Cowel. Blackstone.