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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. [ 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 ]

. 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 ]

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 ]

v. t. To salute mutually. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. similar to the color of fresh grass.
Syn. -- green, greenish, light-green. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. degré, OF. degret, fr. LL. degradare. See Degrade. ] 1. A step, stair, or staircase. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

By ladders, or else by degree. Rom. of R. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of a series of progressive steps upward or downward, in quality, rank, acquirement, and the like; a stage in progression; grade; gradation; as, degrees of vice and virtue; to advance by slow degrees; degree of comparison. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The point or step of progression to which a person has arrived; rank or station in life; position. “A dame of high degree.” Dryden. “A knight is your degree.” Shak. “Lord or lady of high degree.” Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Measure of advancement; quality; extent; as, tastes differ in kind as well as in degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

The degree of excellence which proclaims genius, is different in different times and different places. Sir. J. Reynolds. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Grade or rank to which scholars are admitted by a college or university, in recognition of their attainments; also, (informal) the diploma provided by an educational institution attesting to the achievement of that rank; as, the degree of bachelor of arts, master, doctor, etc.; to hang one's degrees on the office wall. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

☞ In the United States diplomas are usually given as the evidence of a degree conferred. In the humanities the first degree is that of bachelor of arts (B. A. or A. B.); the second that of master of arts (M. A. or A. M.). The degree of bachelor (of arts, science, divinity, law, etc.) is conferred upon those who complete a prescribed course of undergraduate study. The first degree in medicine is that of doctor of medicine (M. D.). The degrees of master and doctor are also conferred, in course, upon those who have completed certain prescribed postgraduate studies, as doctor of philosophy (Ph. D.); the degree of doctor is also conferred as a complimentary recognition of eminent services in science or letters, or for public services or distinction (as doctor of laws (LL. D.) or doctor of divinity (D. D.), when they are called honorary degrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

The youth attained his bachelor's degree, and left the university. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Genealogy) A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third cousins might marry, being in the seventh degree according to the civil law. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Arith.) Three figures taken together in numeration; thus, 140 is one degree, 222, 140 two degrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Algebra) State as indicated by sum of exponents; more particularly, the degree of a term is indicated by the sum of the exponents of its literal factors; thus, a2b3c is a term of the sixth degree. The degree of a power, or radical, is denoted by its index, that of an equation by the greatest sum of the exponents of the unknown quantities in any term; thus, ax4 + bx2 = c, and mx2y2 + nyx = p, are both equations of the fourth degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Trig.) A 360th part of the circumference of a circle, which part is taken as the principal unit of measure for arcs and angles. The degree is divided into 60 minutes and the minute into 60 seconds. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A division, space, or interval, marked on a mathematical or other instrument, as on a thermometer. 11. (Mus.) A line or space of the staff. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The short lines and their spaces are added degrees. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accumulation of degrees. (Eng. Univ.) See under Accumulation. --
By degrees, step by step; by little and little; by moderate advances. “I'll leave it by degrees.” Shak. --
Degree of a curve or
Degree of a surface (Geom.), the number which expresses the degree of the equation of the curve or surface in rectilinear coordinates. A straight line will, in general, meet the curve or surface in a number of points equal to the degree of the curve or surface and no more. --
Degree of latitude (Geog.), on the earth, the distance on a meridian between two parallels of latitude whose latitudes differ from each other by one degree. This distance is not the same on different parts of a meridian, on account of the flattened figure of the earth, being 68.702 statute miles at the equator, and 69.396 at the poles. --
Degree of longitude, the distance on a parallel of latitude between two meridians that make an angle of one degree with each other at the poles -- a distance which varies as the cosine of the latitude, being at the equator 69.16 statute miles. --
To a degree, to an extreme; exceedingly; as, mendacious to a degree. [ 1913 Webster ]

It has been said that Scotsmen . . . are . . . grave to a degree on occasions when races more favored by nature are gladsome to excess. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. possessing a college degree or degrees. [ PJC ]

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 ]

pos>a. (Bot.) Remaining unwithered through the winter, or retaining unwithered leaves until the leaves of the next year are expanded, as pines cedars, hemlocks, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Bot.) An evergreen plant. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Twigs and branches of evergreen plants used for decoration. “The funeral evengreens entwine.” Keble.

. Washington; -- a nickname alluding to the abundance of evergreen trees. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. faenum Graecum, lit., Greek hay: cf. F. fenugrec. Cf. Fennel. ] (Bot.) A plant (trigonella Fœnum Græcum) cultivated for its strong-smelling seeds, which are “now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay.” J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants, 1881). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Corrupted fr. filigrane. ] Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but now composed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silver to which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequently of a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to, composed of, or resembling, work in filigree; as, a filigree basket. Hence: Fanciful; unsubstantial; merely decorative. [ 1913 Webster ]

You ask for reality, not fiction and filigree work. J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Adorned with filigree. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. or n. [ OE. gaude grene. ] Light green. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. ]

a. 1. Green with grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of the color of grass; clear and vivid green. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. gré. See Grateful, and cf. Agree. ] 1. Good will; favor; pleasure; satisfaction; -- used esp. in such phrases as: to take in gree; to accept in gree; that is, to take favorably. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Accept in gree, my lord, the words I spoke. Fairfax. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rank; degree; position. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

He is a shepherd great in gree. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The prize; the honor of the day; as, to bear the gree, i. e., to carry off the prize. [ Obs. or Scot. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ From Agree. ] To agree. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Grees obs. plurals Greece plw>Grice Grise, Grize etc. [ OF. gré, F. grade. See Grade. ] A step. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. See Gree a step. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to Goth. grēdus hunger, Icel. grāðr. √34. See Greedy. ] An eager desire or longing; greediness; as, a greed of gain. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a greedy manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS gr&aemacr_;dignes. ] The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak.

Syn. -- Ravenousness; voracity; eagerness; avidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Greedier superl. Greediest. ] [ OE. gredi, AS. gr&aemacr_;dig, grēdig; akin to D. gretig, OS. grādag, OHG. grātag, Dan. graadig, OSw. gradig, grådig, Icel. grāðugr, Goth. grēdags greedy, grēdēn to be hungry; cf. Skr. g&rsdot_;dh to be greedy. Cf. Greed. ] 1. Having a keen appetite for food or drink; ravenous; voracious; very hungry; -- followed by of; as, a lion that is greedy of his prey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having a keen desire for anything; vehemently desirous; eager to obtain; avaricious; as, greedy of gain. [ 1913 Webster ]