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v. t. [ L. ablegatus, p. p. of ablegare; ab + legare to send with a commission. See Legate. ] To send abroad. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (R. C. Ch.) A representative of the pope charged with important commissions in foreign countries, one of his duties being to bring to a newly named cardinal his insignia of office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ablegatio. ] The act of sending abroad. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. ab + ligatus, p. p. of ligare to tie. ] To tie up so as to hinder from. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abnegated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abnegating. ] [ L. abnegatus, p. p. of abnegare; ab + negare to deny. See Deny. ] To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abnegatio: cf. F. abnégation. ] a denial; a renunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

With abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abnegativus. ] Denying; renouncing; negative. [ R. ] Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who abnegates, denies, or rejects anything. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. abrogatus, p. p. ] Abrogated; abolished. [ Obs. ] Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Abrogated; p. pr. & vb. n. Abrogating. ] [ L. abrogatus, p. p. of abrogare; ab + rogare to ask, require, propose. See Rogation. ] 1. To annul by an authoritative act; to abolish by the authority of the maker or his successor; to repeal; -- applied to the repeal of laws, decrees, ordinances, the abolition of customs, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us see whether the New Testament abrogates what we so frequently see in the Old. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whose laws, like those of the Medes and Persian, they can not alter or abrogate. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put an end to; to do away with. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To abolish; annul; do away; set aside; revoke; repeal; cancel; annihilate. See Abolish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. abrogatio, fr. abrogare: cf. F. abrogation. ] The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tending or designed to abrogate; as, an abrogative law. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who repeals by authority. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. adjugatus, p. p. of adjugare; ad + jugum a yoke. ] To yoke to. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adlegatio, allegatio, a sending away; fr. adlegare, allegare, to send away with a commission; ad in addition + legare to send as ambassador. Cf. Allegation. ] A right formerly claimed by the states of the German Empire of joining their own ministers with those of the emperor in public treaties and negotiations to the common interest of the empire. Encyc. Brit. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ See Arrogate. ] (Rom. Law) To adopt (a person who is his own master). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. adrogatio, arrogatio, fr. adrogare. See Arrogate. ] (Rom. Law) A kind of adoption in ancient Rome. See Arrogation. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. [ Pref. a- on + gate way. ] On the way; agoing; as, to be agate; to set the bells agate. [ Obs. ] Cotgrave. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. agate, It. agata, L. achates, fr. Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Min.) A semipellucid, uncrystallized variety of quartz, presenting various tints in the same specimen. Its colors are delicately arranged in stripes or bands, or blended in clouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The fortification agate, or Scotch pebble, the moss agate, the clouded agate, etc., are familiar varieties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Print.) A kind of type, larger than pearl and smaller than nonpareil; in England called ruby. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This line is printed in the type called agate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A diminutive person; so called in allusion to the small figures cut in agate for rings and seals. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A tool used by gold-wire drawers, bookbinders, etc.; -- so called from the agate fixed in it for burnishing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Agate + -ferous. ] Containing or producing agates. Craig. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or like, agate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Usually p. p. Agatized ] To convert into agate; to make resemble agate. Dana. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of the nature of agate, or containing agate. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Aggregated p. pr. & vb. n. Aggregating. ] [ L. aggregatus, p. p. of aggregare to lead to a flock or herd; ad + gregare to collect into a flock, grex flock, herd. See Gregarious. ] 1. To bring together; to collect into a mass or sum. “The aggregated soil.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To add or unite, as, a person, to an association. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is many times hard to discern to which of the two sorts, the good or the bad, a man ought to be aggregated. Wollaston. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To heap up; accumulate; pile; collect. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

{ } adv. [ All + gate way. The s is an adverbial ending. See Gate. ] 1. Always; wholly; everywhere. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Ulna now he algates must forego. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Still used in the north of England in the sense of “everywhere.” [ 1913 Webster ]

2. By any or means; at all events. [ Obs. ] Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Notwithstanding; yet. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. allegatio, fr. allegare, allegatum, to send a message, cite; later, to free by giving reasons; ad + legare to send, commission. Cf. Allege and Adlegation. ] 1. The act of alleging or positively asserting. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is alleged, asserted, or declared; positive assertion; formal averment [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought their allegation but reasonable. Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) A statement by a party of what he undertakes to prove, -- usually applied to each separate averment; the charge or matter undertaken to be proved. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. alligatus, p. p. of alligare. See Ally. ] To tie; to unite by some tie. [ 1913 Webster ]

Instincts alligated to their nature. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. alligatio. ] 1. The act of tying together or attaching by some bond, or the state of being attached. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arith.) A rule relating to the solution of questions concerning the compounding or mixing of different ingredients, or ingredients of different qualities or values. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The rule is named from the method of connecting together the terms by certain ligature-like signs. Alligation is of two kinds, medial and alternate; medial teaching the method of finding the price or quality of a mixture of several simple ingredients whose prices and qualities are known; alternate, teaching the amount of each of several simple ingredients whose prices or qualities are known, which will be required to make a mixture of given price or quality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. el lagarto the lizard (el lagarto de Indias, the cayman or American crocodile), fr. L. lacertus, lacerta, lizard. See Lizard. ] 1. (Zool.) A large carnivorous reptile of the Crocodile family, peculiar to America. It has a shorter and broader snout than the crocodile, and the large teeth of the lower jaw shut into pits in the upper jaw, which has no marginal notches. Besides the common species of the southern United States, there are allied species in South America. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mech.) Any machine with strong jaws, one of which opens like the movable jaw of an alligator; as, (a) (Metal Working) a form of squeezer for the puddle ball; (b) (Mining) a rock breaker; (c) (Printing) a kind of job press, called also alligator press. [ 1913 Webster ]

Alligator apple (Bot.), the fruit of the Anona palustris, a West Indian tree. It is said to be narcotic in its properties. Loudon. --
Alligator fish (Zool.), a marine fish of northwestern America (Podothecus acipenserinus). --
Alligator gar (Zool.), one of the gar pikes (Lepidosteus spatula) found in the southern rivers of the United States. The name is also applied to other species of gar pikes. --
Alligator pear (Bot.), a corruption of Avocado pear. See Avocado. --
Alligator snapper,
Alligator tortoise,
Alligator turtle (Zool.), a very large and voracious turtle (Macrochelys lacertina) inhabiting the rivers of the southern United States. It sometimes reaches the weight of two hundred pounds. Unlike the common snapping turtle, to which the name is sometimes erroneously applied, it has a scaly head and many small scales beneath the tail. This name is sometimes given to other turtles, as to species of Trionyx. --
Alligator wood, the timber of a tree of the West Indies (Guarea Swartzii). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. & t. [ Because of the resemblance to the pattern on the skin of an alligator. ] to form shallow cracks in a reticulated pattern on the surface, or in a coating on the surface, of an object. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. 1 having cracks in a reticulated pattern, giving an appearance reminiscent of alligator hide; -- said of a surface coating, e.g., of paint, varnish, or glazing
Syn. -- cracked [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. 1. 1 small very elongate sea poachers.
Syn. -- Aspidophoroides monopterygius [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. 1 the family of reptiles comprising the alligators, and including the caimans.
Syn. -- family Alligatoridae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

. (Mech.) A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on one side. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Another + gate, or gait, way. Cf. Algates. ] Of another sort. [ Obs. ] “Another-gates adventure.” Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (R. C. Ch.) The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior to a nuncio. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arrogated p. pr. & vb. n. Arrogating ] [ L. arrogatus, p. p. of adrogare, arrogare, to ask, appropriate to one's self; ad + rogare to ask. See Rogation. ] To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over kings. [ 1913 Webster ]

He arrogated to himself the right of deciding dogmatically what was orthodox doctrine. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. arrogatio, fr. arrogare. Cf. Adrogation. ] 1. The act of arrogating, or making exorbitant claims; the act of taking more than one is justly entitled to. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Civ. Law) Adoption of a person of full age. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Making undue claims and pretension; prone to arrogance. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. ad- + subjugate. ] To bring into subjection. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. navigating according to the positions of the stars.
Syn. -- celestial navigation [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ L. aurigatio, fr. aurigare to be a charioteer, fr. auriga. ] The act of driving a chariot or a carriage. [ R. ] De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]