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adv. 1. Agreeably; correspondingly; suitably; in a manner conformable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Behold, and so proceed accordingly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In natural sequence; consequently; so. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Consequently; therefore; wherefore; hence; so. -- Accordingly, Consequently, indicate a connection between two things, the latter of which is done on account of the former. Accordingly marks the connection as one of simple accordance or congruity, leading naturally to the result which followed; as, he was absent when I called, and I accordingly left my card; our preparations were all finished, and we accordingly set sail. Consequently all finished, and we accordingly set sail. Consequently marks a closer connection, that of logical or causal sequence; as, the papers were not ready, and consequently could not be signed. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an accusing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Dangling. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With adoration. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By adorning; decoratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an affecting manner; is a manner to excite emotions. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an affronting manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A glow of refulgence in the western sky after sunset. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. a- not + ganglionic. ] (Physiol.) Without ganglia. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Agglomerated p. pr. & vb. n. Agglomerating ] [ L. agglomeratus, p. p. of agglomerare; ad + glomerare to form into a ball. See Glomerate. ] To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where he builds the agglomerated pile. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To collect in a mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A collection or mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geol.) A mass of angular volcanic fragments united by heat; -- distinguished from conglomerate. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. 1. Collected into a ball, heap, or mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Collected into a rounded head of flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. clustered together but not coherent. an agglomerated flower head
Syn. -- agglomerate, agglomerative, aggregate, clustered. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. agglomération. ] 1. The act or process of collecting in a mass; a heaping together. [ 1913 Webster ]

An excessive agglomeration of turrets. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. State of being collected in a mass; a mass; cluster. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections. [ 1913 Webster ]

Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of his own words) agglomerative. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. agglutinans, -antis, p. pr. of agglutinare. ] Uniting, as glue; causing, or tending to cause, adhesion. -- n. Any viscous substance which causes bodies or parts to adhere. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. United with glue or as with glue; cemented together. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Consisting of root words combined but not materially altered as to form or meaning; as, agglutinate forms, languages, etc. See Agglutination, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Agglutinated p. pr. & vb. n. Agglutinating. ] [ L. agglutinatus, p. p. of agglutinare to glue or cement to a thing; ad + glutinare to glue; gluten glue. See Glue. ] To unite, or cause to adhere, as with glue or other viscous substance; to unite by causing an adhesion of substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. agglutination. ] 1. The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Combination in which root words are united with little or no change of form or loss of meaning. See Agglutinative, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. agglutinatif. ] 1. Pertaining to agglutination; tending to unite, or having power to cause adhesion; adhesive.
Syn. -- polysynthetic, holophrastic. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Philol.) Formed or characterized by agglutination, as a language or a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

In agglutinative languages the union of words may be compared to mechanical compounds, in inflective languages to chemical compounds. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cf. man-kind, heir-loom, war-like, which are agglutinative compounds. The Finnish, Hungarian, Turkish, the Tamul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an aggravating manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of epiphytic ferns of tropical Asia.
Syn. -- genus Aglaomorpha. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 a genus of Indo-Malayan climbing herbs having thick fleshy oblong leaves and naked unisexual flowers: Chinese evergreen.
Syn. -- genus Aglaonema. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + gleam. ] Gleaming; as, faces agleam. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Aside; askew. [ Scotch ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + glimmer. ] In a glimmering state. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + glitter. ] Glittering; in a glitter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] (Zool.) Without tongue; tongueless. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Pref. a- + glow. ] In a glow; glowing; as, cheeks aglow; the landscape all aglow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. a- not + L. glutire to swallow. ] (Med.) Inability to swallow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. a- not + L. glutire to swallow. ] (Med.) Inability to swallow; dysphagia.
Syn. -- dysphagy. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

adv. With extreme anguish or desperate struggles. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

{ } n. [ F. aiguillette point, tagged point, dim. of aiguilee needle, fr. LL. acucula for acicula, dim. of L. acus needle, pin; cf. OF. agleter to hook on. See Acute, and cf. Aiguillette. ] 1. A tag of a lace or of the points, braids, or cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, “aglet baby” (Shak.), an aglet image. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Haberdashery) A round white staylace. Beck. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Aglet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A reddish glow seen near sunset or sunrise on the summits of mountains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. With an ambling gait. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; wrought in low relief, &unr_; embossed work; &unr_; + &unr_; to engrave. ] Any sculptured, chased, or embossed ornament worked in low relief, as a cameo. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Work chased or embossed relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Pertaining to the art of chasing or embossing in relief; anaglyptic; -- opposed to diaglyptic or sunk work. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. anaglypticus, Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. See Anaglyph. ] Relating to the art of carving, enchasing, or embossing in low relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -graph. ] An instrument by which a correct engraving of any embossed object, such as a medal or cameo, can be executed. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to anaglyptography; as, anaglyptographic engraving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; embossed + -graphy. ] The art of copying works in relief, or of engraving as to give the subject an embossed or raised appearance; -- used in representing coins, bas-reliefs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. angle, L. angulus angle, corner; akin to uncus hook, Gr. 'agky`los bent, crooked, angular, 'a`gkos a bend or hollow, AS. angel hook, fish-hook, G. angel, and F. anchor. ] 1. The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Into the utmost angle of the world. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

To search the tenderest angles of the heart. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) (a) The figure made by. two lines which meet. (b) The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though but an angle reached him of the stone. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Astrol.) A name given to four of the twelve astrological “houses.” [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. [ AS. angel. ] A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

A fisher next his trembling angle bears. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90°. --
Adjacent or
Contiguous angles, such as have one leg common to both angles. --
Alternate angles. See Alternate. --
Angle bar. (a) (Carp.) An upright bar at the angle where two faces of a polygonal or bay window meet. Knight. (b) (Mach.) Same as Angle iron. --
Angle bead (Arch.), a bead worked on or fixed to the angle of any architectural work, esp. for protecting an angle of a wall. --
Angle brace,
Angle tie (Carp.), a brace across an interior angle of a wooden frame, forming the hypothenuse and securing the two side pieces together. Knight. --
Angle iron (Mach.), a rolled bar or plate of iron having one or more angles, used for forming the corners, or connecting or sustaining the sides of an iron structure to which it is riveted. --
Angle leaf (Arch.), a detail in the form of a leaf, more or less conventionalized, used to decorate and sometimes to strengthen an angle. --
Angle meter, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. --
Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. --
Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines. --
External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are produced or lengthened. --
Facial angle. See under Facial. --
Internal angles, those which are within any right-lined figure. --
Mixtilineal angle, one formed by a right line with a curved line. --
Oblique angle, one acute or obtuse, in opposition to a right angle. --
Obtuse angle, one greater than a right angle, or more than 90°. --
Optic angle. See under Optic. --
Rectilineal or
Right-lined angle, one formed by two right lines. --
Right angle, one formed by a right line falling on another perpendicularly, or an angle of 90° (measured by a quarter circle). --
Solid angle, the figure formed by the meeting of three or more plane angles at one point. --
Spherical angle, one made by the meeting of two arcs of great circles, which mutually cut one another on the surface of a globe or sphere. --
Visual angle, the angle formed by two rays of light, or two straight lines drawn from the extreme points of an object to the center of the eye. --
For Angles of commutation,
draught,
incidence,
reflection,
refraction,
position,
repose,
fraction, see Commutation, Draught, Incidence, Reflection, Refraction, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]