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Show AG AG provifion againf?, or in oppofition-to, time of misfortune, but by degrees acIt fometimes fenfe quired a neutra has the cafe elliptically fupprefled, as againft he comes, that is, againft th time when he comes Thence the them broughtintoa ftately hall Wherein were many tables fair difpred And ready dight with drapets feftival Againf the viands thould be miniftred Fairy. Quecn The like charge was given them againf th time they fhould cone to ‘fettle themfelves in th Hooker land promifed unto their fathers Some fay, that ever gainft that feafon comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated The bird of dawning fingeth all night long And then they fay no fpirit walks abroad The nights are wholefome, then no planets ftrike No fairy tales, no witch hath power to charm So hallow'd and fo gracious is the time " Hamlet Shakefp To that purpofe, he made hafte to Briftol, tha all things might be ready againft the prince cam Clarendon thither Againft the promis'd time provides with care And haftens in the woof the robes he was t> wear Dryden All which I grant to be reafonably and trul faid, and only defire they may be remembere Stilling flect againft another day A‘caraxy. n.f. [from e and ydare, Gr. Di& Want of milk AGa'PE. adv. [from a and gape.] Starin with eagernefs ; as, a bird gapes, fo meat In himfelf was all his ftate More {olemn than the tediows pomp that wait On princes, when their rich retinue lon Of horfes led, and grooms befmeat'd with gold Woodward brown, red, and fometimes blue o e a a j a A'cary the nature of agate ea d i e c i t o a w i An agaty f ae c b i f t w e o r whole cov ter; th ceous cruft Wosdzward To Aca'zs, v. a. [from a and gaze, to fe §. le ot an fe am ze am s a gagin pi ft t e e a a wi To firik 'The verb is no with fudden terrour out of ufe An armed knight toward them gallop faft That feemed from fome feared foe to fly Or other grifly thing that him agaft. Fairy Queen agaze participial adj. [fro fee. whic Struc The whole crowd ftood agape, and ready to tak Spectator, No 572 with amazement terrified to ftupidity Hundreds he fent to hell, and none durft ftan him Here, there, and every where, enrag'd h? flew The French exclaim'd, ¢¢Thedevil wasin arms! All the whole army ftood agazed on him Shakefp. Henry VI AGE. u. /. [age, Fr. anciently eage, o aage ; it is deduced by Menage fro wtatium, of etas ; by Funius which, in the Teutoni from aa dialeéts figni fied long duration. 1. Any period of time attributed to fomething as the whole, or part, of its duration : in this fenfe, we 12y, the age o man, the feveral ages of the yorld, th Ogne man in his time plays many parts Shakefpeare His life being feven ages And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt feventee years ; fo the whole age of Jacob was an hundre Genefis, xlvii. 2 forty and feven years 2. A fucceflion or generation of men Hence, laftly, fprings care of pofterities F orthings their kind would everlafting make Hence is it, that old men do plant young trees A'carick. z [ [agaricum, Lat.] A dru The fruit whereof another age fhall take of ufe in phyflic, and the dying trade. Sir ¥+ Dawies It is divided into male and female Next to the Son the male is ufed only in dying, the feDeftin'd Reftorer of mankind, by who New heav'n, and earth, fhall to the ages rife male in medicine: the male-grows o nd defc heav fro dow O oaks, the female on larches Milton's Paradife Loff There are two 'excrefcences which grow upo trees, bpth of ‘them in the nature of mufhrooms the one the Romans ‘call boletus, which growet No declining ag E'er felt the raptures of poetic rage Rofcommon was one of the daintie medicinal, that is callupon the tops of oaks fome, that it growet Bacon 3. The time in which any particular man Acna'st. adj. [ This word, which is ufual Pope ~upon the roots of oaks,an of their table; the other i -«d agarick, which growet though it be affirmed b alfo at the roots ly, b later authors, written agha/? not improbably fro agaze is the true word derive whic ha bee writte ' aghaft, from a miftaken etymology See Acuast.] Struck with terrour amazed; frighted to aftonithment Thus roving o In confus'd march forlorn, th' advent'rous bands With thudd'ring horrour pale; and eyes agafi "Wiew'd firft their lamentable lot, and foun No reft Milton's Paradife Loft A'caTe. n [ [agate, Fr, achates, Lat.] precious ftone of the loweft clafs, ofte «clonded with beautiful variegations ‘On the forefinger of an alderman Shakefps Romeo and Fuliet Agates are only varieties of the flint kind ; the have a grey horny ground clouded, <lineated or race of men, lived, or fhall live; as the age of heroes No longer now the golden age appears When patriarch wits furviv'd a thoufand years 4. The {fpace of a hundred years ; a fecular period; a century 5. .The latter part of life; old-age ; oldnefs You fee how full of change his ageis: the obfervation we have made of it hath not been little he always loved our fifter moft, and with what poo judgment he hath now caft her oft" Shakefpeare's King Lear Boys muft not have th> ambitious care of men Nor men the weak anxieties of age Rofeommon And on this forechead, where your verfe has fai The loves delighted, ard the graces play'd Infulting age will trace his cruel way And leave fad marks of his deftruétive fway In fhape no bigger than an agate ftone o 7. Inlaw In aman, the age of fourteen of diferetion 3 and twenty-one yearsj In a woman at feved years o father may diftrain his tenants f at the age of nineyears, fh i years, {he is able finally.to ratif former confent given to matrimo hands, and fhall be out of war So as they travell'd, fo they 'gan efp AcazED charity of the church We thought our fires the is enabled to receive he golden or iron age Dazzles the crowd, and‘fets them all*agape Paradife Lof? Dazzle the crowd, and fet them all agape Philips the do&or athis word fpotted with different colours, chiefly dufky, blacl;, ot that, ininfancy, Prior 6. Maturity ; ripenefs ; years of diferetion; full ftrength of life A folemn admiflion ofprofelytes, all‘that either being of *uge, defire that admiffion' for ‘themfelves la anceftor: at fixteen, fhe fh though, at the death of her anc the agz of fourteen years; at twe able to alienate her lands an age of fourteen, a ftripling is ena own guardian; at the age of fourte confent to marriage A'GEp. adj. [from age. It ma lables in poetry. 1. Old; flricken in years; rally to animate beings If th comparifo d ftand betwe man, the aged, for the moft part, enced, leaft fubje&k to rath and unadvi Novelty is only in requeft; and iti to be aged in any kind of courfe, a to be conftant in any undertaking Shakefp. Meafure f Kindnefs itfelf too weak a charm wil To raife the feeble fires of aged love 2. Old; applied to inanimate things ufe is rare, and commonl wit tendency to the profopopaia The people did no more worthip th gold and ivory, than they did the grov fame Quintilian faith of the aged oaks Stilling fieet's Defence of Difcs on A'cepry. adv. [from aged.] Af manner of an aged perfon Ace'~ return adv [agen Sax.] Aga See AcAIN This word is now only writt manner, though it be in realit orthography, for the fake of rhi Thus Venus : Thus her fon reply'd ag None of your fifters have we heard or f A'Gency. n. /. [from agent. 1. The quality of alting ; the ftate in aion ; action A fewadvances there arein the following tending to aflert the fuperintendence an Providence in the natural world Woodward's Preface to V 2. 'The office of an agent or fa&or f other ; bufinefs performed by a Some of the purchafers themfelves tent to live cheap in a worfe country rat be at the charge of exchange and agencies A'GENT adj [agens, Lat.] That alts ; oppofed to patient, or that W is acted upon This fuccefs is oft truly afcribed unto 'tb;E of imaginatio upon the body agent3 an t a fecondary means, it may upon a diverf as, for example if a man carrya ring; Ofi part of a beaft, believing frongly that him to obtain his love, it may makel-bh induftrious, and again more confiden and pe than otherwife he would be Bacor's A'GENT. n. / 1. Anafor; he that a&s ; he tha the faculty of a&ion.. . ‘ po |