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Definition for A-GAVE'
AG'A-TY
A-GAZE'
A-GAVE'
, n. [Gr. αγαυος, admirable.]
The American aloe. The great aloe rises twenty feet, and its branches form a sort of pyramid at the top. – Encyc.
A genus of univalvular shells.
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