‖n. [ L. aegis, fr. Gr. a'igi`s a goat skin, a shield, a'i`x goat, or fr. 'ai`:ssw to rush. ] A shield or protective armor; -- applied in mythology to the shield of Jupiter which he gave to Minerva. Also fig.: A shield; a protection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in aërology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. discrimination against middle-aged and elderly people. [ Also spelled ageism. ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ OF. agister; à (L. ad) + gister to assign a lodging, fr. giste lodging, abode, F. gîte, LL. gistum, gista, fr. L. jacitum, p. p. of jac&unr_;re to lie: cf. LL. agistare, adgistare. See Gist. ] (Law) To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- used originally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, and collecting the money for the same. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. ] See Agister. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. agistement. See Agist. ] (Law) (a) Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men's cattle in the king's forests. (b) The taking in by any one of other men's cattle to graze at a certain rate. Mozley & W. (c) The price paid for such feeding. (d) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Anglo-Norman agistour. ] (Law) (a) Formerly, an officer of the king's forest, who had the care of cattle agisted, and collected the money for the same; -- hence called gisttaker, which in England is corrupted into guest-taker. (b) Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed or engaged in agriology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in agrostology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One learned about algæ; a student of algology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a physician skilled in the diagnosis and treatment of allergies. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_; + -logy. ] Ambiguity of speech; equivocation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; course of reasoning, fr. &unr_; to think over, to calculate ] 1. (Logic) an argument from the cause to the effect; an a priori argument. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who reasons from analogy, or represent, by analogy. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who compiles an anthology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is versed in anthropology. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. anti- + magistrical for magistratical. ] Opposed to the office or authority of magistrates. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An opposer of the theory of phlogiston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. (Chem.) Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Counteracting inflammation. See also anti-inflammatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Any medicine or diet which tends to check inflammation. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; not inflammable; 'a priv. + &unr_; set on fire. See Phlogiston. ] Flameless; as, an aphlogistic lamp, in which a coil of wire is kept in a state of continued ignition by alcohol, without flame. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. apis bee + -logist (see -logy). ] A student of bees. [ R. ] Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. 1. same as apologize.
Syn. -- apologize, excuse, justify, rationalize [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. apologiste. ] One who makes an apology; one who speaks or writes in defense of a faith, a cause, or an institution; especially, one who argues in defense of Christianity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. apanagiste. ] A prince to whom an appanage has been granted. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is versed in, or studies, arachnology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in archæology; an antiquary. Wright. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 an anthropologist who studies prehistoric people and their culture.
Syn. -- archaeologist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Areopagite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is versed in atmology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in bacteriology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A method of reducing corpulence by avoiding food containing much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who battologizes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bookbinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to the art of binding books. [ R. ] Dibdin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. use of biological principles in explaining human behavior, especially social behavior. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A student of biology; one versed in the science of biology. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to biologism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. boulangisme. ] The spirit or principles of a French political movement identified with Gen. Georges Boulanger (d. 1891), whose militarism and advocacy of revenge on Germany attracted to him a miscellaneous party of monarchists and Republican malcontents. -- Bou*lan"gist n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. One versed in the science of foods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in bryology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One skilled in campanology; a bell ringer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who describes fruits; one versed in carpology. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A device for recording the amount of cash received, usually having an automatic adding machine and a money drawer and exhibiting the amount of the sale. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. One versed in cetology. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who communicates thoughts by signs made with the hands and fingers. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ , n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. [ 1913 Webster ]

That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December. John Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One versed in, or who studies, climatology. [ 1913 Webster ]