agrote

t. [Deriv. uncertain.] To cloy, to surfeit ( Tyrwhitt ). To ingurgitate, to saturate ( Skinner ). [A GROT ONE.] * "But I am agroted here beforne To write of hem that in loue been forsworne." Chaucer: Legend of Phillis. a-grō-ted, * a-gro-tid, tei-ed, pa . par . [AGROTE.] * a-grō Two a-gro-tis, s . [Apparently from Gr. ἀγρότης ( agrotes ) or ἀγρώτης ( agrōtēs ) = belonging to the field; ἀγρός ( agros ) = a field.] A genus of Moths of the family Noctuidæ. species, the A. exclamation is, Heart and Dart Moth; and A. segetum, Common Dart Moth, have caterpillars called by agriculturists surface grubs, which are destructive to various field-crops, as also to garden flowers.