agitate 
6. To consider on all sides; revolve in the 
mind, or view in all its aspects ; plan. 
When politicians most agitate desperate designs. 
Kikt'n BaMUu. 
= Syn 3 and 4. To rouse, stir up, ruffle, discompose. B 
and 8. To canvass, deliberate upon. 
II. intrans. To engage in agitation ; arouse 
or attempt to arouse public interest, as in 
some political or social question : as, he set out 
to agitate in the country. 
The Tories agitated in the early Hanoverian period for 
short parliaments and for the restriction of the corrupt 
influence of the Crown. L,;-lc : i, Lug. in 18th Cent., i. 
agitated (aj'i-ta-ted),j>. a. Disturbed; excited; 
expressing agitation : as, in an agitated man- 
ner; "an agitated countenance," Thackeray. 
She burst out at last iaan agitated, almost violent, tone. 
George Eliot, Mill on the Moss, ill. 2. 
agitatedly (aj 'i-ta-ted-li), adv. In an agitated 
manner. 
agitating (aj'i-ta-ting), p. a. Disturbing; ex- 
citing; moving. 
agitation (aj-i-ta'shon), n. [< L. agitatto(n-), 
(agitare: see agitate.} The act of agitating, 
or the state of being agitated, (a) The state of be- 
ing shaken or moved with violence, or with irregular ac- 
tion ; commotion : as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 
The molecules of all bodies are in a state of continual 
agitation. J- N- Lockyer, Spect. Anal., p. 11. 
(6) Disturbance of the mind ; perturbation ; excitement of 
passion. 
Agitations of the public mind so deep and so long con- 
tinued as those which we have witnessed do not end in 
nothing. itacaulay, Part. Reform. 
Away walked Catherine in great agitation, as fast as 
the crowd would permit her. 
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, xni. 
(c) Examination of a subject in controversy; deliberation ; 
discussion ; debate. 
We owe it to the timid and the doubting to keep the 
great questions of the time in unceasing and untiring agi- 
tation. 0. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life, p. 80. 
(d) The act of arousing public attention to a political or 
social question by speeches, etc. = Syn. () Agitation, Trepi- 
dation Tremor Emotion, excitement, flutter. Tremor is, 
in its literal use, wholly physical ; it may be in a part of 
the body or the whole ; it is generally less violent than 
trepidation Trepidation and agitation are more often used 
of the mind than of the body. But all three words may ex- 
press states either of the body or the mind, or of both at 
once through reflex influence. Trepidation is generally 
the result of fear; it is the excited anticipation of speedy 
disaster, penalty, etc. Agitation may be retrospective and 
occasioned by that which is pleasant ; it includes the mean- 
ing of trepidation and a part of that of emotion. Emotion 
is used only of the mind ; it is the broadest and highest of 
these words, covering all movements of feeling, whether 
of pleasure or pain, from agitation to the pleasure that the 
mind may take in abstract truth. 
What lengths of far-famed ages, billowed high 
With human agitation, roll along 
In unsubstantial images of air ! 
Young, Night Thoughts. 
I can recall vividly the trepidation which I carried to 
that meeting. D. G. Mitchell, Bound Together, i. 
I had a worrying ache and inward tremor underlying all 
the outward play of the senses and mind. 
0. W. Holmes, Old Vol. of Life. 
Mellow, melancholy, yet not mournful, the tone seemed 
to gush up out of the deep well of Hepzibah's heart, all 
steeped in its profoundest emotion. 
Hawthorne, Seven Gables, vi. 
agitational (aj-i-ta'shon-al), a. Relating or 
pertaining to agitation. 
agitative (aj'i-ta-tiv), a. [< agitate + -4vc.} 
Having a tendency to agitate. 
agitato (a-je-ta'to), a. [It., pp. of agitare, < L. 
agitare: see agitate.} Agitated; restless: a 
word used in music, generally in combination 
with allegro or presto, to describe the charac- 
ter of a movement as broken, hurried, or rest- 
less in style. 
agitator (aj'i-ta-tor), n. [L., < agitare : see agi- 
tate.} 1. One who or that which agitates. Spe- 
cifically (a) One who engages in some kind of political 
agitation ; one who stirs up or excites others, with the view 
of strengthening his own cause or party. 
[Robin of Redesdale] collected forces and began to 
traverse the country as an agitator in the summer of 1489 ; 
Doasiblvat the suggestion, certainly with the connivance, 
of Warwick. SfuWw, Const. Hist., 681. 
(b) A machine for agitating and mixing ; specifically, a 
machine for stirring pulverized ore in water. 
2. A name given to certain officers appointed 
by the army of the English Commonwealth in 
1647-9 to manage their concerns. There were 
two from each regiment. 
They proceeded from those elective tribunes called agi- 
tat'irx, who had been established in every regiment to 
superintend the interests of the army. 
Hattam, Const. Hist., II. 210. 
[It has been supposed that in this sense the proper spelling 
of the word is a-'ljutator. iiK':inin'. r "t one who agitates, but 
one who assists. But Dr. J. A. H. >Iurray says : "Care- 
ful investigation satisfies me that Agitator wns tlie actual 
title, and Adjutator originally only a bad spelling of sol- 
diers familiar with Adjutants and the Adjutoris of 1642. ] 
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agitatorial (aj'i-ta-to'ri-al), a. Of or pertain- 
ing to an agitator. 
Aglaophenia(ag"la-6-fe'ni-a), . [NL. (La- 
marck, 1812), appar. an error for * aglaophema, <. 
Gr. 'Ay/tao^w, one of the sirens, fern, of dy/lao- 
<t>t/uoc, of splendid fame, < dyAaof, splendid, bril- 
liant, + Mm = L. fama, fame.] A notable ge- 
nus of calyptoblastic hydroids, of the family 
I'/iiinulariida;. A. struthiuiiidts is an elegant species 
of the Pacific coast of North America, known, from its i 
ure and general appearance, as the ostrich-plume. Others 
occur on the Atlantic coast. 
aglare (a-glar'), prep. plir. as adv. or a. [< a 
+ glare^.~\ In a glare ; glaring. 
The toss of unshorn hair, 
And wringing of hands, and eyes aglare. 
Whittier, The Preacher. 
Aglaura (ag-la'ra), . [NL., < Gr. ''\yfavpo(, a 
mythol. name.] "1. A genus of craspedote hy- 
droids, or Trachymedusai, of the family Trachy- 
nemida:. Peron and Lesuexr, 1809. 2. A genus 
of worms. 3. A genus of lepidopterous in- 
sects. Boisducal, 1851. 
Aglaurinae (ag-la-ri'ne), n. pi. [NL.,< Aglaura, 
1, + -ina;.} A group of Trachy medusa, typified 
by the genus Aglaura, having 8 radial canals 
and a pedicle to the stomach. 
ag-leaf (ag'lef), n. [Prob. a corruption of hag- 
leaf, as witches were believed to use the plant 
in their incantations : see hagl.} A name of 
the common mullen, Ferbasemn Thapsus. 
agleam (a-glem'), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [< 
as + gleam.'] Gleaming; in a gleaming state. 
Faces . . . agleam with pale intellectual light. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 380. 
aglee, agley (a-gle'), prep, phr as adv. [< a-3 
+ Sc. gley, gleg, squint, oblique look: see gley.] 
Off the right line; obliquely; wrong. [Scotch.] 
The best laid schemes o' mice an' men 
Gang aft a-gley. Burns, To a Mouse, 
aglet, aiglet (ag'let, ag'let), . [Early mod. 
E. also agglet, < ME. aglet, aglette, < OF. agv.il- 
lette, aiguillette, F. aiguillette, a point, dim. of 
aiguille, < ML. acucula, dim. of L. acus, a needle : 
see acus.'] 1. A tag or metal sheathing of the 
end of a lace, or of the points (see point) or rib- 
bons generally used in the sixteenth and seven- 
teenth centuries to fasten or tie dresses. They 
were originally intended simply to facilitate the passing 
of the ends through the eyelet-holes, as in modern shoe- 
laces and stay-laces, but were afterward frequently formed 
of the precious metals, carved into small figures, and sus- 
pended from the ribbon, etc., as ornaments (whence Shak- 
spere's phrase "an aglet-baby," which see); and they are 
still so used in the form of tagged points or braid hanging 
from the shoulder in some military uniforms, now officially 
styled aiguillettes. Also written aigtdet. 
And on his head an hood with aglets sprad. 
Spenser, F. Q., VI. ii. 5. 
His gown, addressed with aglets, esteemed worth 261. 
Sir J. Uayward, Life of Edw. VI. 
2t. In hot., a pendent anther; also, a loose pen- 
dent catkin, as of the birch, 
aglet-babyt (ag'let-ba"bi), n. A small image 
on the end of a lace. See aglet. 
Marry him to a puppet, or an aglet-baby. 
agley, prep. phr. as adv. See aglee. 
aglimmer (a-glim'er), prep. phr. as adv. or a. 
[< a 3 + glimmer.'] In or into a glimmering 
state ; glimmering. 
aglistt (a-glisf), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [< < 
+ glist, 'q. v.] Glistening: as, aglist with dew. 
aglbbulia (ag-lo-bu'li-a), n. [NL., < Gr. d- 
priv. + L. globulus, globule.] Same as oligo- 
cytheiiiia. 
aglobulism (a-glob'u-lizm), . [< Gr. a- priv. + 
globule + -ism:} liipatliol. : (a) Diminution of 
the amount of hemoglobin in the blood. (6) 
Oligocythemia. 
Aglossa (a-glos'a), n. pi. [NL., < Gr. ay^mroc, 
tongueless, < a- priv. + yAucma, tongue.] 1. A 
series of anu- 
rous or salient 
batrachians 
which have no 
tongue, (at) In 
some systems com- 
prehending the 
genera Pipa, Dac- 
tylethra, and Myo- 
batrachux, and di- 
vided into Aglossa 
haplosiphonia for 
the first two of 
these genera, and 
Aglossa diplosi- 
p'honia for the 
third genus : in this sense the term is contrasted with 
agnail 
2f. [Used as a singular.] A genus of pyralid 
moths, containing such species as A.pinguinalis 
and A. ca/>reolatus. 
aglossal (a-glos'al), a. [< Gr. ay^uaaof, tongue- 
less, + -a'.] Tongueless; pertaining to the 
Aglossa. 
aglossate (a-glos'at), a. and . [< NL. aglos- 
satus: see Aglossa and -a fe 1 .] I. a. Having no 
tongue; aglossal. 
II. n. An aglossal batrachian ; a member of 
the suborder Aglossa. See Aglossa, 1. 
aglossostoma (ag-lo-sos'to-mii), n.; pi. aglos- 
sostomata (ag"lo-s6-sto'ma-ta). [NL.,< Gr. 
dy/UwiTof, without a tongue, + ard/ia. mouth.] 
In teratol., a monster having a mouth without 
a tongue, 
aglow (a-glo'), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [< a 
+ glow'.'} In a glow ; glowing : as, her cheeks 
were all aglow. 
Surinam Toad (Pipa surinamtnsis}. 
PhanmglotM. (!0 Restricted in Pipa and Xenopiu (or 
Dactyleihra), and divided into the families Pipiaa and 
Xenopodidtf, which agree in having opisthocojlian verte- 
!>]:! expansive sacral processes, discrete epicoracoids, 
and, in the larval state, one pair of spiracles. 
The ascetic soul of the Puritan, aglmc with the gloomy 
or rapturous mysteries of his theology. 
Stedman, Viet. Poets, p. 12. 
A painted window all aglow with the figures of tradition 
and poetry. Lowell, Study Windows, p. 251. 
aglutition (ag-16-tish'on), n. [< Gr. a- priv. + 
L. *glutitio(n-), < glutire, pp. glutitus, swallow.] 
In pa thai., inability to swallow. 
Aglycyderes (ag-H-sid'e-rez), n. [NL., < Gr. 
d- priv. 4- y/tuKtjf, sweet, + <tipy, Attic form of 
detpr/, neck. The first two elements, meaning 
lit. ' not sweet,' are taken in the forced sense 
of 'uncomely' or 'unusual.'] A notable genus 
of beetles, of the family Bruchidte, character- 
ized by the fact that the head of the male is an- 
teriorly produced on each side into a horn-like 
process, and posteriorly contracted into a nar- 
row neck, whence the name. Westwood, 1863. 
aglyphodont (a-glif 'o-dont), a. and w. [< 
Aglyphodontia.] I. a. In herpet., having the 
characteristics of the Aglyphodontia ; without 
grooved teeth and poison-glands. 
II. n. A serpent of this character; one of 
the Aglyphodontia (which see). 
Aglyphbdonta (a-glif-o-don'ta), TO. pi. [NL.] 
Same as Aglyphodontia. 
Aglyphodontia (a-glif-o-don'shia), n. pi. [< 
Gr. avXwAor, uncarved (< a- priv. + yXi^etv, carve, 
cut out), + oowf (odmrr-) = E. tooth.} A group 
or series of innocuous serpents (Ophidia), 
embracing ordinary colubrine or colubriform 
snakes, without poison-glands, with a dilatable 
mouth, and with solid hooked' teeth in both 
jaws. The name is derived from the last character; 
for the venomous serpents of the series Proteroglijpha or 
Solenoglypha have poison-fangs channeled or grooved for 
the transmission of the venom. The Aglyphodontia in- 
clude numerous families and genera, of most parts of the 
world Colubridne and Boida> being among the best known 
of the families. Synonymous with Colubrina. See cuts 
under Colnlier and Boa. 
agmatology (ag-ma-tol'o-ji), . [< Gr. ayiia(r-), 
a fragment (< ayvvvat, break), + -Mrfla, < Mym, 
speak : see -ology.} That department of sur- 
gery which is concerned with fractures, 
agmen (ag'men), r>. ; pi. agmina (-mi-nii). [L., 
a train, troops in motion, army, multitude, < 
agere, drive, move, do: see agent.} In zoiil., 
a superordinal group; a division of animals 
ranking between a class and an order. Suitde- 
vall. 
Sundevall would still make two grand divisions(^5rmtn<t) 
of birds. A. Newton, Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 37. 
agmlnalt (ag'mi-nal), a. [< L. agminalis, < ag- 
men (agmin-), a train : see agmen.} It. Pertain- 
ing to an army or a troop. Bailey. 2. In zool., 
of or pertaining to an agmen. 
agminate (ag'mi-nat), a. [< NL. agminatus, < 
L. agmen (agmin-), a multitude: see agmen.} 
Aggregated or clustered together: in anat., 
said of the lymphatic glands forming patches 
in the small intestines (Payer's patches), as 
distinguished from the solitary glands or fol- 
licles: as, "agminate glands," R. Gray, Anat. 
agminated (ag'mi-na-ted), a. [< agminate 4 
-ed".} Same as agminate. 
agnail 
nale, 
mOd. Llll. I*I/WI-, -V *--. ~y J 7 " "^ 
AS. angna-gl, occurring twice (Leechdoms, . 
p. 80, and index, p. 8), and usually explained by 
paronychia, i. e., a whitlow, but prop., it seems, 
a corn, wart, or excrescence (cf. angset, angseta, 
ongseta, a wart, boil, carbuncle), (= OFnes. ong- 
nil, ogneil, a misshapen finger-nail or an ex- 
crescence following the loss of a finger-nail, = 
OHG. ungnaqel, G. dial. annegeUn, cinnegeln- 
Grimm), < (I) ange, a-nge, engc, narrow, tight, 
painful (see anger^, anguish ; for the sense here, 
cf. LG. noodnagel, a hangnail, nood, distress, 
