aha2 (aha)

Same as ha - ha2. ahead (a-hed'), prep. phr. as adv. or a. [ The east end of the island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding, Voyage to Lisbon. It seemed to me when very young, that on this subject life was ahead of theology, and the people knew more than the preachers taught. Emerson, Compensation. 2. Forward; onward; with unrestrained motion or action: as, go ahead (= go on; proceed; push forward or onward; carry out your task or purpose: an idiomatic phrase said to have originated in the United States, and sometimes converted into an adjective: as, a go - ahead person); he pushed ahead with his plans. They suffer them [children] at first to run ahead . Sir R. L'Estrange, Fables. IMG:content-0434.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][ocr errors][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-0435.png:[graphic] When some fresh bruit Startled me all aheap ! and soon I saw The horridest shape that ever raised my awe. Hood, Mids. Fairies, xvi. IMG:content-0436.png:[blocks in formation] toad.] The Bufo mar in us or B. agua , a very 4. Subject to ague. large and common South American toad, with aguish ne (ā'gū-ish-nes), n. The condition of enormous parotid glands. It is one of the noisiest being aguish; chilline . IMG:content-0437.png:[blocks in formation] ague (a'gū), п. [ And the burning ague , that shall consume the eyes. Lev. xxvi. 16. 2. Intermittent fever; a malarial fever charac terized by regularly returning paroxysms, each in well-developed forms, consisting of three stages marked by succe ive fits, cold or shiv ering (the chill), hot or burning, and sweating; chills and fever. That ye schul have a fever terciane Or an agu . Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 140. 3. Chilline ; a chill not resulting from disease. Dumb ague. See dumb. agy (a'ji), a. [ wholly of petals, no pistils being present. agynic (a-jin'ik), a. [As agynous + -ic.] In bot., a term applied to the insertion of stamens which are entirely free from the ovary. [Rare.] agynous (aj'i-nus), a. [ organs.