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t. [ Or other grisly thing that him aghast . Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 21. IMG:content-0380.png:[graphic] 2. Reflexively, to be terrified. The rynges on the temple dore that honge, And eek the dores, clatereden ful faste, Of which Arcita somwhat hym agaste. Chaucer , Knight's Tale, 1. 2424. Agastreæ (a-gas'trē-ē), n . pl . [NL.: see Agas tri a.] A term proposed in 1874 by Huxley as a provisional designation of one of two divisions of metazoic animals (the other being Gastrea ), by which the orders Cestoidea and Acantho cephala , which have no alimentary canal or proper digestive cavity, are contrasted with all other Metazoa . Jour. Linn. Soc., XII. 226. Some alterations in this scheme have since been made; the Agastreæ are relegated, the Cestoidea to Trema Pascoe , Zool. Cla ., p. 4. of Ceylon mo or Bengal engal isingla , consisting tod a and Acanthocephala to the Nema to idea. of dried seaweed of several species, such as Gracilaria lichenoides, Eucheuma spinosum, etc. It is much used in the East for soups and jel lies. Also called agal - agal. See gelose. agaric (ag'a-rik or a-gar'ik), n. and a. [L. agaricum, n. A fungus of the genus Agaric us. Among the old herbalists the name had a wider range, including the corky forms growing on trunks of trees, like the "female agaric," Polyp or us officinal is, to which the word was originally applied, and which is still known as agaric in the materia medic a. See Agaric us, Boletus, and Polyp or us. - Agaric-gnat, a dipterous insect of the family Mycetophilidæ (which see). II. a. Of or pertaining to agarics; fungoid.Agaric mineral, a very soft and light variety of calcite or calcium carbonate. It is generally pure white, found chiefly in the clefts of rocks and at the bottom of some lakes in a loose or semi-indurated form resembling a fungus. The name is also applied to a stone of loose consistence found in Tuscany, of which bricks may be made so light as to float in water, and of which the ancients are supposed to have made their floating bricks. It is a hydrated silicate of magnesium, mixed with lime, alumina, and a small quantity of iron. Also called mountain - milk and moun tain - meal .