Agnotherium (agnotherium)

[NL., short for * agnostotherium, agnus They will ki a crucifix, salute a cro , carry most de voutly a scapulary, an agnus , or a set of beads about them. Brevint, Saul and Samuel at Endor, p. 331. 2. [cap.] In zoöl.: (a) A genus of beetles. Bur meister, 1847. (b) A genus of fishes. Gün ther, 1860.-Agnus cast us (kas'tus). [L., supposed to mean 'chaste lamb' (hence tr. into G. keuschlamm ), but agnus is here only a transliteration of ayνος, the Greek name of the tree, and L. cast us, chaste, is added in allusion to its imagined virtue of preserving chastity, from the resemblance of the Greek name ἄγνος τo άγνός, chaste.] A disagreeably aromatic shrub or small tree of the genus IMG:content-0408.png:[blocks in formation] be most frolick, lively, blithe, crank, merry," agonistical (ag-ō-nis'ti-kal), a . Same as ago- etc. (Cotgrave); Cotgrave); origin uncertain. The W. gog, nistic. activity, velocity, eity, gogi , agitate, shake, shake, appear a agonistically (ag-o-nis'ti-kal-i), adv . In an to be unoriginal, and may be from E.] E.] In a agonistic manner. [Rare.] state of eager desire ne or curiosity; astir. Or at the least yt setts the harte on gogg . Cotton Mather came galloping down All the way to Newbury town, With his eyes agog and his ears set wide. Whittier, Double-headed Snake. digitate leaves and spikes of purplish-blue flowers, and is native in the countries around the Mediterranean. Also called chaste -tree and Abraham's - balm. The her be Agnus cast us is always grene, and the flowre therof is namly callyd Agnus cast us , for wyth smelle and vse it makyth men chaste as a lombe. goggled, q. v.] Staring; having staring eyes. [Rare.] And wreaths of Agnus -cast us others bore; These last, who with those virgin crowns were drest, Appear'd in higher honour than the rest. Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 172. of rheostat. A mercury a go meter is an instrument for measuring electrical resistances, or for varying the resistance of a circuit, by means of a mercury column whose length may be adjusted as required.