Word Meanings - AGATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. Cotgrave.

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• AGOUARA
  The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America.
• AGO
  Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago. (more info) by, AS. agan to pass away; a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning
• AGONOTHETE
  An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
• AGONY
  1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain
• AGOING
  In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.
• AGORA
  An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
• AGOUTI; AGOUTY
  A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.
• AGONISM
  Contention for a prize; a contest. Blount.
• AGOUTA
  A small insectivorous mammal , allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.
• AGONISTIC; AGONISTICAL
  Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.
• AGONIZINGLY
  With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
• AGONE
  Ago. Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.
• AGONIST
  One who contends for the prize in public games.
• AGONISTICALLY
  In an agonistic manner.
• AGON
  A contest for a prize at the public games.
• AGOOD
  In earnest; heartily. "I made her weep agood." Shak.
• AGONIZE
  Etym: 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope. 2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately.
• AGONISTICS
  The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games.
• AGONOTHETIC
  Pertaining to the office of an agonothete.
• AGONIC
  Not forming an angle. Agonic line , an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and
• MYSTAGOGY
  The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
• ISAGOGE
  An introduction. Harris.
• HIPPOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.
• LAGOON
  1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. 2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. Lagoon
• PHAGOCYTE
  A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up , in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.
• EMENAGOGUE
  See EMMENAGOGUE
• HARPAGON
  A grappling iron.
• GAGATE
  Agate. Fuller.
• VAGOUS
  Wandering; unsettled. Ayliffe.
• GALACTOPHAGOUS
  Feeding on milk.
• PENDRAGON
  A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.
• PARAGOGE
  The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.
• MYSTAGOGIC; MYSTAGOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
• MELANAGOGUE
  A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
• SAGOIN
  A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.
• WAGON
  The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
• GEOPHAGOUS
  Earth-eating.
• ENNEAGON
  A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.