He saw from far, or seemed for to see, Some troublous uproar or contentious fray, Whereto he drew in haste it to agree. Fairy Q. 2. To make friends; to reconcile.

The mighty rivals, whose destructive rage Did the whole world in civil arms engage, Are now agreed. Roscommon.

AGREEABLE. adj. [agréable, Fr.] 1. Suitable to; consistent with; conformable to. It has the particle to or with. This paucity of blood is agreeable to many other animals, as frogs, lizards, and other fishes. Brown's Vulgar Errours. The delight which men have in popularity, fame, submission, and subjection of other men's minds, seemeth to be a thing, in itself, without contemplation of consequence, agreeable and grateful to the nature of man. Bacon's Nat. Hist. What you do, is not at all agreeable either with so good a christian, or so reasonable and so great a person. Temple. That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of L'Estrange.

another.

As the practice of all piety and virtue is agreeable to our reason, so it is likewise the interest both of private persons and of public soTillotson.

cieties.

2. In the following passage the adjective is used by a familiar corruption for the adverb agreeably.

Agreeable hereunto, perhaps it might not be amiss, to make children, as soon as they are capable of it, often to tell a story. Locke.

3. Pleasing; that is suitable to the inclination, faculties, or temper. It is used in this sense both of persons and things.

And while the face of outward things we find Pleasant and fair, agreeable and sweet, These things transport. Sir J. Davies.

I recollect in my mind the discourses which have passed between us, and call to mind a thousand agreeable remarks which he has made Spectator. on these occasions. AGREEABLENESS. n. s. [from agreeable.] 1. Consistency with; suitableness to: with the particle to.

Locke.

Pleasant tastes depend not on the things themselves, but their agreeableness to this or that particular palate, wherein there is great variety. 2. The quality of pleasing. It is used in an inferiour sense, to mark the production of satisfaction, calm and lasting, but below rapture or admiration.

There will be occasion for largeness of mind Collier. and agreeableness of temper.

It is very much an image of that author's writing, who has an agreeableness that charms us, without correctness; like a mistress, whose faults we see, but love her with them all. Pope. 3. Resemblance; likeness; sometimes with the particle between.

This relation is likewise seen in the agreeablezes between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew's Cosmologia Sacra. AGREEABLY.adv. [from agreeable.] 1. Consistently with; in a manner suitable

to.

They may look into the affairs of Judea and Jerusalem, agreeably to that which is in the law

of the Lord.

2. Pleasingly.

1 Esdras.

I did never imagine, that so many excellent rules could be produced so advantageously and agreeably.. Savift. AGREED. participial adj. [from agree.]. Settled by consent.

When they had got known and agreed names to signify those internal operations of their own minds, they were sufficiently furnished to make known by words all their ideas. Locke. AGREEINGNESS. 2.s. [from agree.] Consistence; suitableness.

AGREEMENT. n. s. [agrément, Fr. in law Latin agreamentum, which Coke would willingly derive from aggregatio mentium.]

1. Concord.

What agreement is there between the hyena and the dog? and what peace between the rich and the poor? Ecclus.

2. Resemblance of one thing to another.

The division and quavering which please so much in musick, have an agreement with the glittering of light, as the moon-beams playing Bacon.

upon a wave.

Expansion and duration have this farther agreement, that though they are both considered by us as having parts, yet their parts are not separable one from another. Locke. 3. Compact; bargain; conclusion of controversy; stipulation.

And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.

Isaiah.

Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig-tree. 2 Kings.

Frog had given his word, that he would meet the company to talk of this agreement. Arbuthnot. AGRE'STICK, or AGRE'STICAL. adj.

[from agrestis, Lat.] Having relation to Dict. the country; rude; rustick. AGRICOLA TIÓN. n. s. [from agricola, Lat.] Culture of the ground. Dict. AGRICULTURE. n. s. [@gricultura, Lat.] The art of cultivating the ground; tillage; husbandry, as distinct from pasturage.

He strictly adviseth not to begin to sow before the setting of the stars; which, notwithstanding, without injury to agriculture, cannot be observed in England. Brown's Vulgar Errours. That there was tillage bestowed upon the antediluvian ground, Moses does indeed intimate in general; what sort of tillage that was, is not expressed: I hope to shew that their agriculture was nothing near so laborious and troublesome, nor did it take up so much time as ours doth. Woodward's Natural History. The disposition of Ulysses inclined him to war, rather than the more lucrative, but more secure, method of life, by agriculture and husbandry. Broome's Notes on the Odyssy

A'GRIMONY. n. s. [agrimonia, Lat.] A plant.

The leaves are rough, hairy, pinnated, and grow alternately on the branches; the flower-cup consists of one leaf, which is divided into five segments; the flowers have five or six leaves, and are formed into a long spike, which expand in form of a rose; the fruit is oblong, dry, and prickly, like the burdock: in each of which are contained two kernels. Miller.

To AGRI'SE. v. n. [agniran, Sax.] To look terrible. Out of use. Spenser. To AGRI'SE. v. a. To terrify. Spenser. AGROUND. adv. [from a and ground.] 1. Stranded; hindered by the ground from passing further.

With our great ships, we durst not approach the coast, we having been all of us aground. Sir W. Raleigh's Essays. Say what you seek, and whither were you bound?

Were you by stress of weather cast aground? Dryden's Eneid.

2. It is likewise figuratively used, for being hindered in the progress of affairs; as, the negociators were aground at that objection.

A'GUE. n. s. [aigu, Fr. acute.] An intermitting fever, with cold fits succeeded by hot. The cold fit is, in popular language, more particularly called the ague, and the hot the fever.

Our castle's strength

Will laugh a siege to scorn. Here let them lie, Till famine and the ague eat them up. Shaks. Though

He feels the heats of youth, and colds of age, Yet neither tempers nor corrects the other; As if there were an ague in his nature, That still inclines to one extreme. Denham. A'GUED. adj. [from ague.] Struck with an ague; shivering; chill; cold: a word in little use.

All hurt behind, backs red, and faces pale, With flight and agued fear! Shakspeare. A'GUE-FIT. n. s. [from ague and fit.] The paroxysm of the ague.

This ague fit of fear is overblown. Shaksp A'GUE-PROOF. adj. [from ague and proof.] Proof against agues; able to resist the causes which produce agues, without being affected.

When the rain came to wet me once, and the wind to make me chatter; when the thunder would not peace at my bidding; there I found 'em, there I smelt 'em out. They told me I was every thing: 'tis a lie; I am not ague proof. Shakspeare's King Lear. A'GUE-TREE. n. s. [from ague and tree.] A name sometimes given to sassafras.

Dict. To AGUI'SE. v. a. [from a and guise.] See GUISE.] To dress; to adorn; to deck. Not in use.

As her fantastic wit did most delight, Sometimes her head she fondly would aguise With gaudy garlands, or fresh flowers dight About her neck, or rings of rushes plight.

Fairy Queen.

AHEAD, adv. [from a and bead.] 1. Further onward than another: a sea term.

And now the mighty Centaur seems to lead, And now the speedy Dolphin gets ahead. Dryd. 2. Headlong; precipitantly: used of animals, and figuratively of men.

It is mightily the fault of parents, guardians, tutors, and governours, that so many men miscarry. They suffer them at first to run abead, and, when perverse inclinations are advanced into habits, there is no dealing with them. L'Estr. AHEIGHT. adv. [from a and beight.] Aloft; on high.

But have I fall'n or no?-From the dread summit of this chalky bourne! Look up aheight, the shrill-gorg'd lark'so far Cannot be seen or heard. Shakspeare's K. Lear. AHOUA'I. n. s. A poisonous plant. To AID. v. a. [aider, Fr. from adjutare, Lat.] To help; to support; to suc

cour.

Into the lake he leapt, his lord to aid, And of him catching hold, him strongly staid From drowning. Spenser's Fairy Queen. Neither shall they give any thing unto them that make war upon them, or aid them with victuals, weapons, money, or ships. Maccab.

By the loud trumpet, which our courage aids, We learn that sound as well as sense persuades. Roscommon

AID. . . [from the verb.]

1. Help; support.

The memory of useful things may receive considerable aid, if they are thrown into verse. Watts' Improvement of the Mind. Your patrimonial stores in peace possess; Undoubted all your filial claim confess : Your private right, should impious power invade, The peers of Ithaca would arm in aid. 2. The person that gives help or support; a helper; auxiliary.

Pope.

Thou hast said, it is not good that man should be alone; let us make unto him an aid, like unto himself. Tobit. Great aids came in to him, partly upon missives, and partly voluntaries from many parts. Bacon. 3. In law.

A subsidy. Aid is also particularly used, in matter of pleading, for a petition made in court, for the calling in of help from another that hath an interest in the cause in question; and is likewise both to give strength to the party that prays in aid of him, and also to avoid a prejudice accruing towards his own right except it be prevented: as, when a tenant for a term of life, courtesy, . being impleaded touching his estate, he may pray in aid of him in the reversion; that is, entreat the court, that he may be called in by writ, to allege what he thinks good for the maintenance both of his right and his Cervell.

own.

A'DANCE. n. s. [from aid.] Help; support: a word little used.

Oft have I seen a timely parted ghost, Of ashy semblance, meagre, pale, and bloodless, Being all descended to the lab'ring heart, Who, in the conflict that it holds with death, Attracts the same for aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shakspeare's Henry VI. AIDANT. adj. [aidant, Fr.] Helping; helpful. Not in use.

All you unpublish'd virtues of the earth, Spring with my tears; be aidant and remediate In the good man's distress. Shakspeare. AIDER. n. s. [from aid.] He that brings aid or help; a helper; an ally.

All along as he went, were punished the adherents and aiders of the late rebels. Bacon. AIDLESS. adj. [from aid, and less, an inseparable particle.] Helpless; unsupported; undefended.

Alone he enter'd

The mortal gate o' th' city, which he painted
With shunless destiny: aidless came off,
And, with a sudden re-enforcement, struck
Corioli like a planet.
Shakspeare.

He had met Already, ere my best speed could prevent, The aidless innocent lady, his wish'd prey. Milt. A'IGULET. n. s. [aigulet, Fr.] A point with tags; points of gold at the end of fringes.

It all above besprinkled was throughout With golden aigulets that glister'd bright, Like twinkling stars, and all the skirt about Was hemm'd with golden fringes. Fairy Queen. To AIL. v. a. [eglan, Sax. to be trouble some.]

1. To pain; to trouble; to give pain.

And the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, what aileth thee Hagar? fear not: for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

Genesis. 2. It is used in a sense less determinate, for to affect in any manner: as, something ails me that I cannot sit still; what ails the man that be laughs without reason?

Love smiled and thus said, Want joined to desire is unhappy; but if he nought do desire, what can Heraclitus ail? Sidney. What ails me, that I cannot lose thy thought, Command the empress hither to be brought, I, in her death, shall some diversion find, And rid my thoughts at once of woman-kind. Dryden's Tyrannick Love. 3. To feel pain; to be incommoded. 4. It is remarkable, that this word is never used but with some indefinite term, or the word nothing; as, What ails him? What does he ail? He ails something? he ails nothing. Something ails bim; nothing ails him. Thus we never say, a fever ails him, or he ails a fever, or use definite terms with this verb.

Little ailments oft attend the fair, Not decent for a husband's eye or ear. Granville. I am never ill, but I think of your ailments, and repine that they mutually hinder our being together. Swift's Letters. To AIM. v. n. [It is derived by Skinner from efmer, to point at; a word which I have not yet found.]

1. To endeavour to strike with a missive weapon; to direct toward: with the particle at.

Aim'st thou at princes, all amaz'd they said, The last of games? Pope's Odyssey. 2. To point the view, or direct the steps, toward any thing; to tend toward; to endeavour to reach or obtain: with to formerly, now only with at.

3.

Lo, here the world is bliss; so here the end To which all men do aim, rich to be made, Such grace now to be happy is before thee laid. Fairy Queen.

Another kind there is, which although we desire for itself, as health, and virtue, and knowledge, nevertheless they are not the last mark whereat we aim, but have their further end whereunto they are referred. Hooker.

Swoln with applause, and aiming still at more, He now provokes the sea-gods from the shore. Dryden's Æneid.

Religion tends to the ease and pleasure, the peace and tranquillity of our minds, which all the wisdom of the world did always aim at, as the Tillotson. utmost felicity of this life.

To guess.

To AIM. v. a. To direct the missile weapon; more particularly taken for the

There is something wonderfully divine in the airs of this picture. Addison on Italy. Yet should the Graces all thy figures place, And breathe an air divine on ev'ry face. Pope. 14. An affected or laboured manner or gesture, as a lofty air, a gay air.

Whom Ancus follows with a fawning air; But vain within, and proudly popular. Dryden. There are of these sort of beauties, which last but for a moment; as, the different airs of an assembly, upon the sight of an unexpected and uncommon object, some particularity of a violent passion, some graceful action, a smile, a glance of an eye, a disdainful look, a look of gravity, and a thousand other such like things. Dryden's Dufresnoy.

Their whole lives were employed in intrigues of state, and they naturally give themselves airs of kings and princes, of which the ministers of other nations are only the representatives.

Addison's Remarks on Italy. To curl their waving hairs, Assist their blushes, and inspire their airs. Pope. He assumes and affects an entire set of very different airs; he conceives himself a being of a superiour nature. Swift. 15. Appearance.

As it was communicated with the air of a secret, it soon found its way into the world. Pope. 16. [In horsemanship.] Airs denote the artificial or practised motions of a managed horse. Chambers. To AIR. v. a. [from the noun air.] 1. To expose to the air; to open to the air.

The others make it a matter of small commendation in itself, if they, who wear it, do nothing else but air the robes, which their place requireth. Hooker.

Fleas breed principally of straw or mats, where there hath been a little moisture, or the chamber and bed-straw kept close, and not Bacon. aired.

We have had, in our time, experience twice or thrice, when both the judges that sat upon the jail, and numbers of those that attended the business, or were present, sickened upon it, and died. Therefore it were good wisdom, that, in such cases, the jail were aired before they were brought forth. Bacon's Natural History. As the ants were airing their provisions one winter, up comes a hungry grasshopper to them and begs a charity. L'Estrange's Fables. Or wicker-baskets weave, or air the corn. Dryden's Virgil. 2. To gratify, by enjoying the open air: with the reciprocal pronoun.

Nay, stay a little

Were you but riding forth to air yourself,
Such parting were too petty.

Shakspeare. I ascended the highest hills of Bagdat, in or der to pass the rest of the day in meditation and prayer. As I was here airing myself on the tops of the mountains, I fell into a profound contemplation on the vanity of human life. Spectator. 3. To air liquors; to warm them by the fire: a term used in conversation. 4. To breed in nests. In this sense, it is derived from aerie, a nest. Out of use. You may add their busy, dangerous, discourteous, yea and sometimes despiteful stealing,

one from another, of the eggs and young ones; who, if they were allowed to air naturally and quietly, there would be store sufficient, to kill not only the partridges, but even all the good housewives chickens in a country.

Carew's Surv. of Cornwall. A'IRBLADDER. n. s. [from air and bladder.]

1. Any cuticle or vesicle filled with air.

The pulmonary artery and vein pass along the surfaces of these airbladders, in an infinite number of ramifications. Arbuthnot on Aliments. 2. The bladder in fishes, by the contraction and dilatation of which, they vary the properties of their weight to that of their bulk, and rise or fall.

Though the airbladder in fishes seems necessary for swimming, yet some are so formed as to Cudworth. swim without it.

A'IR BUILT. adj. [from air and build.] Built in the air; without any solid foundation.

Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme,

The airbuilt castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantick wish, the chymist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame. Popes AIRDRAWN. adj. [from air and drawn.] Drawn or painted in air. Not used. This is the very painting of your fear, This is the air-drawn dagger, which, you said, Led you to Duncan. Shakspeare. A'IRER. n. s. [from To air.] He that exposes to the air.

AIRHOLE. n. s. [from air and hole.] A hole to admit the air. A'IRINESS. n. s. [from airy.] 1. Openness; exposure to the air. 2. Lightness; gayety; levity.

The French have indeed taken worthy pains to make classick learning speak their language; if they have not succeeded, it must be imputed to a certain talkativeness and airiness represented in their tongue, which will never agree with the 'sedateness of the Romans, or the solemnity of the Greeks. Felton.

A'IRING. n. s. [from air.] A short journey or ramble to enjoy the free air.

This little fleet serves only to fetch them wine and corn, and to give their ladies an airing in the summer season. Addison.

AIRLESS. adj. [from air.] Wanting communication with the free air.

Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass, Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron, Can be retentive to the strength of spirit. Shak. A'IRLING. 7. S. [from air, for gazety.] A young, light, thoughtless, gay, per