Aglaia

proper name. [Gr. proper name, ̓Αγλαία ( Aglaïa ); from ἀγλαία ( aglaïa ) = (1) splendour, beauty, adornment; (2) festive joy, triumph, glory; ἀγλαός ( aglaos ) = splendid, brilliant, bright.] 1. Cla . Myth. The youngest of the Three Graces. 2. Astron.: An asteroid, the forty-seventh found. It was discovered by the astronomer Luther, on the 15th of September, 1857 . ag-lět, aig-lět, * ag'-glět, * ǎg'glětte, * ăg-lětte, * āy'-gul-ět, s . [Fr. aiguillette = (1) an aiglet, (2) a slice (of flesh): fr. aiguille = a needle aigu sharp.] [AIGUILLE.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. The tag of a lace, or of the points formerly used in dre . These were often cut into the representation of a man or of one of the inferior animals. "A little plate" ( Huloet ). "So faire, and you sand you sand times more faire, She seemd, when she presented was to sight: And was yclad, for heat of scorching aire, All in a silken Camus lilly whight, Purfled upon with many a folded plight, Which all above besprinckled was throughout With golden aygulets , that glistred bright Like twinckling starres; and all the skirt about Was hemd with golden fringe.' Spenser: F. Q., II. iii. 26. 2. The lace to which the tag was attached (Albert Way : Note in Prompt . Parv ., ii. 8.) 3. "A spangle, the gold or silver tinsel ornamenting the dre of a showman or ropedancer." (Hartshorne: Salop Antiq . , p. 303.) "Aglette Bracteolum," i.e., bractcola = a thin leaf of gold." (Levins: Man i pulus Vocabu lorum .) "And all those stars that gaze upon her face Are aglets on her sleeve, pins in her train." O. Pl . , iii. 194 "The little stars and all that look like aglets." Beaum. & Flet.: Two Noble Kinsm., iii. 4 B. Technically: 1. Old Bot .: An anther. ( Kersey .) 2. An ament or catkin of the hazel-tree ( Corylus avellan a , Linn.). ( Gerard .)