*agree*

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Agreed p. pr. & vb. n. Agreeing. ] [ F. agréer to accept or receive kindly, fr. à gré; à (L. ad) + gré good will, consent, liking, fr. L. gratus pleasing, agreeable. See Grateful. ] 1. To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law. [ 1913 Webster ]

If music and sweet poetry agree. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their witness agreed not together. Mark xiv. 56. [ 1913 Webster ]

The more you agree together, the less hurt can your enemies do you. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To yield assent; to accede; -- followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise. [ 1913 Webster ]

Agree with thine adversary quickly. Matt. v. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]

Didst not thou agree with me for a penny ? Matt. xx. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Gram.) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The auxiliary forms of to be are often employed with the participle agreed. “The jury were agreed.” Macaulay. “Can two walk together, except they be agreed ?” Amos iii. 3. The principal intransitive uses were probably derived from the transitive verb used reflexively. “I agree me well to your desire.” Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To assent; concur; consent; acquiesce; accede; engage; promise; stipulate; contract; bargain; correspond; harmonize; fit; tally; coincide; comport. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. agreablete. ] 1. Easiness of disposition. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being, or making one's self, agreeable; agreeableness. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. agréable. ] 1. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful; as, agreeable manners or remarks; an agreeable person; fruit agreeable to the taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

A train of agreeable reveries. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Willing; ready to agree or consent. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; -- followed by to, rarely by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; -- in this sense used adverbially for agreeably; as, agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Pleasing; pleasant; welcome; charming; acceptable; amiable. See Pleasant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. [ 1913 Webster ]

That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of being agreeable or suitable; suitableness or conformity; consistency. [ 1913 Webster ]

The agreeableness of virtuous actions to human nature. Pearce. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Resemblance; concordance; harmony; -- with to or between. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The agreeableness between man and the other parts of the universe. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. In an agreeably manner; in a manner to give pleasure; pleasingly. “Agreeably entertained.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In accordance; suitably; consistently; conformably; -- followed by to and rarely by with. See Agreeable, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

The effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Alike; similarly. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Both clad in shepherds' weeds agreeably. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. 1. in agreement; of the same mind; having the same opinion.
Syn. -- concordant, concurring(prenominal). [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. expressing agreement or consent.
Syn. -- assentient, assenting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In an agreeing manner (to); correspondingly; agreeably. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. agrément. ] 1. State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the members of the council. [ 1913 Webster ]

What agreement hath the temple of God with idols ? 2 Cor. vi. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

Expansion and duration have this further agreement. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Gram.) Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) (a) A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract. (b) The language, oral or written, embodying reciprocal promises. Abbott. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Bargain; contract; compact; stipulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who agrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bag + reef. ] (Naut.) The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shagreen. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Disagreed p. pr. & vb. n. Disagreeing. ] [ Pref. dis- + agree: cf. F. désagréer to displease. ] 1. To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance. [ 1913 Webster ]

They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems to disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To differ in opinion; to hold discordant views; to be at controversy; to quarrel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who shall decide, when doctors disagree? Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be unsuited; to have unfitness; as, medicine sometimes disagrees with the patient; food often disagrees with the stomach or the taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Usually followed by with, sometimes by to, rarely by from; as, I disagree to your proposal.

Syn. -- To differ; vary; dissent. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. désagréable. ] 1. Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or senses; displeasing; unpleasant. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which is disagreeable to one is many times agreeable to another, or disagreeable in a less degree. Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disagreement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. désagrément disagreeable circumstance, disagreeableness. ] 1. The state of disagreeing; a being at variance; dissimilitude; diversity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unsuitableness; unadaptedness. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Difference of opinion or sentiment. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A falling out, or controversy; difference.

Syn. -- Difference; diversity; dissimilitude; unlikeness; discrepancy; variance; dissent; misunderstanding; dissension; division; dispute; jar; wrangle; discord. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disagrees. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. variant spelling of filigree.
Syn. -- filigree, filagree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

An agreement binding only as a matter of honor; often, specif., such an agreement among the heads of industrial or merchantile enterprises, the terms of which could not be included and enforced in a legal contract. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ or, more fully, or }. (Law) A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay all the installments of rent as they become due the contract shall determine and the title vest absolutely in him, and that if he chooses he may at any time during the term surrender the goods and be quit of any liability for future installments upon the contract. In the United States such a contract is generally treated as a conditional sale, and the term hire purchase is also sometimes applied to a contract in which the hirer is not free to avoid future liability by surrender of the goods. In England, however, if the hirer does not have this right the contract is a sale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. i. To agree again. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To chagrin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. chagrin, It. zigrino, fr. Turk. saghri the back of a horse or other beast of burden, shagreen. Cf. Chagrin. ] 1. A kind of untanned leather prepared in Russia and the East, from the skins of horses, asses, and camels, and grained so as to be covered with small round granulations. This characteristic surface is produced by pressing small seeds into the grain or hair side when moist, and afterward, when dry, scraping off the roughness left between them, and then, by soaking, causing the portions of the skin which had been compressed or indented by the seeds to swell up into relief. It is used for covering small cases and boxes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The skin of various small sharks and other fishes when having small, rough, bony scales. The dogfishes of the genus Scyllium furnish a large part of that used in the arts. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ a. 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. “A shagreen case of lancets.” T. Hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. [ 1913 Webster ]