Agnotherium

( Pul.) A fo il animal the size Agnus cast us, n. [Lat.] The name of the Chaste tree, a species of viter, so called from an imaginary virtue attributed to it of preserving chastity. Agnus Dei. [Lat., Lamb of God.] ( Eccl . Hist .) A prayer of the Catholic liturgy, beginning with the words Agnus Dei , sung before the communion and at the close of the ma . - Also , a round piece of wax, on which is impre ed the figure of the sacred Lamb, with the banner of the cro , or of St. John, with the year and the name of the Pope. The Pope consecrates and distributes a great number of them. Ago', adv . [A. S. agan , past or gone.] Past; gone; since; as, long ago-that is, long time past since.Generally, reckoning time toward the present, we use since; as, it is a year since it happened: reckoning from the present, we use ago ; as, it happened a year ago . A'go, or AGOA, DE PA'O, the mountain-peak near the middle of the island of St. Michael, in the Azores, upwards of 3,000 feet high. Ag'obard, archbishop of Lyons, one of the most celebrated prelates of the 9th century. D. 840. Agog', adv . [A. S. gang an , to go.] Abroad; abroach; astir; adrift; agoing. The idea seems to be that of excited interest, with a tendency to distraction; the faculties not only actively astir, but going, as it were, different ways at once, under the influence of curiosity, delight, surprise, or desire. "They put the heads of our servant-maids agog for husbands." "The gaudy go ip, when she's set agog , In jewels drest, and at each ear a bob, Add is on. Goes flaunting out, and, in her trim of pride, Thinks all she says or does is justify'd."-Dryden. Agog'ebic, in Michigan , a lake 2 m. wide and 25 m. long, situated in the N.W. of the state, about 12 m. S. of Lake Superior. The W. branch of the On to nag on river is its outlet. A'gon, an island of Sweden, in the gulf of Bothnia, with a good harbor. Lat. 61° 20′ N.; lon. 18° 10 E. Agon'es Capitol in i, games celebrated at Rome every fifty years upon the Capitoline hill, established by Diocletian. Prizes were proposed for agility and strength, as well as for poetical and other literary compositions.