Index of English words, starting with "ag"

(1) - Agistment (n.) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
(2) - Agistment (n.) The price paid for such feeding.
(3) - Agistment (n.) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate.
(4) - Agistment (n.) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests.

(1) - Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
(2) - Agitate (v. t.) To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.
(3) - Agitate (v. t.) To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
(4) - Agitate (v. t.) To move or actuate.
(5) - Agitate (v. t.) To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.

(1) - Agitation (n.) Examination or consideration of a subject in controversy, or of a plan proposed for adoption; earnest discussion; debate.
(2) - Agitation (n.) Excitement of public feeling by discussion, appeals, etc.; as, the antislavery agitation; labor agitation.
(3) - Agitation (n.) A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
(4) - Agitation (n.) The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation.

(1) - Agitator (n.) An implement for shaking or mixing.
(2) - Agitator (n.) One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators.
(3) - Agitator (n.) One who agitates; one who stirs up or excites others; as, political reformers and agitators.

(1) - Agleam (adv. & a.) Gleaming; as, faces agleam.