auglettet

An obsolete form of aglet. augment (ag'ment), n. [ This augment of the tree. I. Walton, Complete Angler. 2. In gram ., an addition at the beginning of certain past indicative tenses of the verb in a part of the Indo-European languages. In San 379 skrit it is always a; in Greek it is - (-) before a consonant (syllabic augment), but an initial vowel is length ened (ή-, εἰ-) (temporal augment). The same name is sometimes given to other prefixed inflectional elements, as to the ge- of the German perfect participle ( gebracht, brought). Another form, which we may call the preterito-present, unites the augment of the past and the ending of the present tense. Amer. Jour. Philol., VII. 354. 3. In pathol., the period of a fever between its commencement and its height. [Rare.] augment (ag-ment'), v. [ Be it your care augur augmentative (ag-men'ta-tiv), a. and n. [F. augment at if, II. n. A word formed to expre increased intensity of the idea conveyed by it, or an affix which serves this purpose. IMG:content-1396.png:[blocks in formation] To augment your heap of wealth. Fletcher ( and another ), Elder Brother, i. 2. augment le (ag'ment-les), a. [ augment + IMG:content-1397.png:[blocks in formation] Encyc . Brit ., XI. 690. Henry VIII. granted to the earl of Surrey to augment his arms with a dem i-lion, gules, pierced through the mouth with an arrow. Augmented interval, See interval . - Augmented surface, a term first used by Rankine to denote an immersed or wetted surface sufficiently greater than the actual surface of a ve el to give, when substituted for the actual quantity in estimations of the speed of a ve el, results which conform to the actual performance. II. in trans. To become greater in size, amount, degree, etc.; increase; grow larger. The winds redouble and the streams augment. Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, i. 466. Her fears augmented as her comforts fled. Crabbe, Tales of the Hall.