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a. [ L. aggregatus, p. p. ] 1. Formed by a collection of particulars into a whole mass or sum; collective. [ 1913 Webster ]

The aggregate testimony of many hundreds. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) Formed into clusters or groups of lobules; as, aggregate glands. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Bot.) Composed of several florets within a common involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Min. & Geol.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Zool.) United into a common organized mass; -- said of certain compound animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

Corporation aggregate. (Law) See under Corporation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A mass, assemblage, or sum of particulars; as, a house is an aggregate of stone, brick, timber, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In an aggregate the particulars are less intimately mixed than in a compound. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physics) A mass formed by the union of homogeneous particles; -- in distinction from a compound, formed by the union of heterogeneous particles. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the aggregate, collectively; together. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Collectively; in mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. LL. aggregatio, F. agrégation. ] The act of aggregating, or the state of being aggregated; collection into a mass or sum; a collection of particulars; an aggregate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each genus is made up by aggregation of species. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

A nation is not an idea only of local extent and individual momentary aggregation, but . . . of continuity, which extends in time as well as in numbers, and in space. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Fr. agrégatif. ] 1. Taken together; collective. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gregarious; social. [ R. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. tending to gather into a mass. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who aggregates. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. agreger. See Aggravate. ] To make heavy; to aggravate. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Aggressed p. pr. & vb. n. Aggressing. ] [ L. aggressus, p. p. of aggredi to go to, approach; ad + gradi to step, go, gradus step: cf. OF. aggresser. See Grade. ] To commit the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. take the initiative and go on the offensive, as in a game.
Syn. -- attack [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To set upon; to attack. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aggressus. ] Aggression. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Their military aggresses on others. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. aggressio, fr. aggredi: cf. F. agression. ] The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. “Aggressions of power.” Hallam [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Attack; offense; intrusion; provocation. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. agressif. ] 1. Tending or disposed to aggress; having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of one's own ends at the expense of others or mindless of others' needs or desires; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation; an aggressive businessman; an aggressive basketball player; he was aggressive and imperious in his convictions; aggressive drivers. Opposite of unaggressive. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

No aggressive movement was made. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Marked by self-confident ambition, vigorous competitiveness, energy and initiative; as, an aggressive young executive.
Syn. -- enterprising, pushful, pushing, pushy [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. (Med., Biol.) Tending to grow or spread quickly; as, an aggressive tumor. [ Narrower terms: invasive (vs. noninvasive) ] AS
Syn. -- fast-growing(prenominal) [ WordNet 1.5 ]

4. Tending to initiate unprovoked attacks; initiating unprovoked military action; eager to fight; as, aggressive acts against another country.
Syn. -- belligerent. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Narrower related terms: bellicose, combative, pugnacious, scrappy, truculent ; hard-hitting, high-pressure ; hostile (used of attempts to buy or take control of a business: "hostile takeover"; "hostile tender offer"); predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, vulturine, vulturous . See also: assertive, hostile, offensive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

-- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. agresseur. ] The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } adv. [ F. à gré. See Agree. ] In good part; kindly. [ Obs. ] Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. [ L. agrestis, fr. ager field. ] Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth. “Agrestic behavior.” Gregory. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Agrestic. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. See Eager. ] Sour. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. origin unknown. ] Charcoal prepared for making powder. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F., a sort of white heron, with a tuft of feathers on its head; a tuft of feathers; dim. of the same word as heron. See Heron, and cf. Egret, Egrette. ] 1. (Zool.) The small white European heron. See Egret. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A plume or tuft for the head composed of feathers, or of gems, etc. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A tuft like that of the egret. (Bot.) A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. allégresse, fr. L. alacer sprightly. ] Joy; gladsomeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ It., dim. of allegro. ] (Mus.) Quicker than andante, but not so quick as allegro. -- n. A movement in this time. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Ambergris. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various spectacular orchids of the genus Angraecum having 2-ranked dark green leathery leaves and usually nocturnally scented white or ivory flowers. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Great as a man's arm. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. pale gray; ash-colored.
Syn. -- ash-gray, ashy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Aye ever + green. ] (Bot.) The houseleek (Sempervivum tectorum). Halliwell. [ 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 ]

v. t. To soil or daub with grease or other oily matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

. pl. blue"-green al"gae [ from the color and resemblance to algae. ] any of a group of photosynthetic microorganisms possessing characteristics of both bacteria and plants. When classed as bacteria, they are assigned to the Cyanobacteria; when classed as plants, they are assigned to the Cyanophyta. They are now known to be prokaryotic, and are usually called cyanobacteria in technical contexts. See cyanobacterium. [ PJC ]

def>A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a. [1913 Webster]

[ G. Braunschweiger grün, first made at Brunswick, in Germany. ] An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shagreen. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) A form of malarial fever occurring along the Chagres River, Panama. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. very dark gray.
Syn. -- charcoal. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ , n. See Chigoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Cf. F. chigue, perh. fr. Catalan chic small, Sp. chico; or of Peruvian origin. ] (Zool.) A species of flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans), common in the West Indies and South America, which often attacks the feet or any exposed part of the human body, and burrowing beneath the skin produces great irritation. When the female is allowed to remain and breed, troublesome sores result, which are sometimes dangerous. See Jigger. [ Written also chegre, chegoe, chique, chigger, jigger. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is sometimes erroneously given to certain mites or ticks having similar habits. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Corrupted fr. colewort. ] 1. Same as collards{ 1 }. [ Colloq. Southern U. S. ]
Syn. -- collards. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. i. [ Pref.on-+ L. gratus pleasing. Cf. Agree. ] To agree. [ bs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]