‖prop. n. [ NL., fr. Gr. 'agh`raton a sort of plant; 'a priv. + gh`ras old age. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants, one species of which (Ageratum Mexicanum) has lavender-blue flowers in dense clusters. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Alnage. ] A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect and measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it a seal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as arbitrageur.
Syn. -- arb, arbitrageur [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, assuages. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Alnage and Alnager. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A field worker, esp. a woman who works in the field. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who lives in a cottage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) One who lives on the common, without paying any rent, or having land of his own. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who discourages. [ 1913 Webster ]

The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who disparages or dishonors; one who vilifies or disgraces. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. douagiere, fr. douage dower. See Dower. ] 1. (Eng. Law) A widow endowed, or having a jointure; a widow who either enjoys a dower from her deceased husband, or has property of her own brought by her to her husband on marriage, and settled on her after his decease. Blount. Burrill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A title given in England to a widow, to distinguish her from the wife of her husband's heir bearing the same name; -- chiefly applied to widows of personages of rank. [ 1913 Webster ]

With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Queen dowager, the widow of a king. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The rank or condition of a dowager; formality, as that of a dowager. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mansions that have passed away into dowagerism. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. egre sharp, sour, eager, OF. agre, aigre, F. aigre, fr. L. acer sharp, sour, spirited, zealous; akin to Gr. &unr_; highest, extreme, Skr. a&unr_;ra point; fr. a root signifying to be sharp. Cf. Acrid, Edge. ] 1. Sharp; sour; acid. [ Obs. ] “Like eager droppings into milk.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. [ Obs. ] “A nipping and an eager air.” “Eager words.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Excited by desire in the pursuit of any object; ardent to pursue, perform, or obtain; keenly desirous; hotly longing; earnest; zealous; impetuous; vehement; as, the hounds were eager in the chase. [ 1913 Webster ]

And gazed for tidings in my eager eyes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

How eagerly ye follow my disgraces! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

When to her eager lips is brought
Her infant's thrilling kiss. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

A crowd of eager and curious schoolboys. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Conceit and grief an eager combat fight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Brittle; inflexible; not ductile. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Gold will be sometimes so eager, as artists call it, that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself. Locke.

Syn. -- Earnest; ardent; vehement; hot; impetuous; fervent; intense; impassioned; zealous; forward. See Earnest. -- Eager, Earnest. Eager marks an excited state of desire or passion; thus, a child is eager for a plaything, a hungry man is eager for food, a covetous man is eager for gain. Eagerness is liable to frequent abuses, and is good or bad, as the case may be. It relates to what is praiseworthy or the contrary. Earnest denotes a permanent state of mind, feeling, or sentiment. It is always taken in a good sense; as, a preacher is earnest in his appeals to the conscience; an agent is earnest in his solicitations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Eagre. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an eager manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. “The eagerness of love.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Tartness; sourness. [ Obs. ]

Syn. -- Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness; fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion; greediness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. [ 1913 Webster ]

Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. étager to arrange on shelves, fr. étage story, floor. See Stage. ] A piece of furniture having a number of uninclosed shelves or stages, one above another, for receiving articles of elegance or use. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who forages. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A measurer. See Gauger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Homage: cf. F. hommager. ] One who does homage, or holds land of another by homage; a vassal. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Praxiteles was ennobled for a rare imager. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. imagerie, F. imagerie. ] 1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. “Painted imagery.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those oratories might you see
Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

What can thy imagery of sorrow mean? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imagery of a melancholic fancy. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ G. jäger a hunter, a sportsman. Cf. Yager. ] [ Written also jaeger. ] 1. (Mil.) A sharpshooter. See Yager. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any species of gull of the genus Stercorarius. Three species occur on the Atlantic coast. The jagers pursue other species of gulls and force them to disgorge their prey. The two middle tail feathers are usually decidedly longer than the rest. Called also boatswain, and marline-spike bird. The name is also applied to the skua, or Arctic gull (Megalestris skua). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ From Laager, n. ] To form into, or camp in, a laager, or protected camp. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ D., also leger. Cf. 2d Leaguer, Lair. ] A camp, especially one surrounded by a circular formation of travelers' wagons for temporary defense. [ South Africa ]
Syn. -- lager. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Wagons . . . can be readily formed into a laager, a camp, by being drawn into a circle, with the oxen placed inside and so kept safe from the attacks of wild beasts. James Bryce. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Lager beer. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. [ G. lager bed, storehouse + bier beer. See Lair, and Beer. ] Originally a German beer, but now also made in immense quantities in the United States; -- so called from its being laid up or stored for some months before use. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. Wine which has been kept for some time in the cellar. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater. [ 1913 Webster ]

A skillful manager of the rabble. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist. [ 1913 Webster ]

A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A contriver; an intriguer. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A woman manager. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. “Managerial responsibility.” C. Bronté. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or position of a manager. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. menagerie, mesnagerie. See Manage, n., and cf. Menagerie. ] 1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. same as meager, 2. Opposite of ample.
Syn. -- meager, meagre. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. [ OE. merge, F. maigre, L. macer; akin to D. & G. mager, Icel. magr, and prob. to Gr. makro`s long. Cf. Emaciate, Maigre. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean. [ 1913 Webster ]

Meager were his looks;
Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery; as, meager resources; meager fare. Opposite of ample. [ wns=1 ] [ Narrower terms: exiguous ] [ Narrower terms: hardscrabble, marginal ] [ Narrower terms: measly, miserable, paltry ] “Meager soil.” Dryden.
Syn. -- meagre, meagerly, scanty. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of secular habits and meager religious belief. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

His education had been but meager. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- scrimpy, skimpy, skimping. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Syn. -- Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, v. t. To make lean. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, adv. Poorly; thinly. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, n. The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Syn. -- meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ménagerie, fr. ménager to keep house, ménage household. See Menial, Mansion. ] 1. A place where animals are kept and trained. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. ] A messenger. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who manages ill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Law) One who gives a mortgage. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Onagri E. Onagers [ L. onager, onagrus, Gr. &unr_;. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A wild ass of central Asia, especially the koulan (Equus hemionus syn. Equus hemippus syn. Equus onager, formely Asinus onager). [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Too eager; too impatient. -- O`ver*ea"ger*ly, adv. -- O"ver*ea"ger*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

n. A small electronic communication device which signals when a telephone call has been received at a base station. Each such device receives radio signals from the base station specifically coded for the individual to whom it is registered; the signal given by the device to the registered user may be a beeping sound, indicating that the user should call the base station to receive a message; or it may display a telephone number to which the user may call directly to return the incoming call, or may display a short message. Such devices are small enough to carry in the pocket or pocketbook, or to clip onto a belt or other part of the clothing. Also called beeper. [ PJC ]

n. [ See Passenger. ] A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [ Obs. ] Ld. Berners. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who pillages. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fr. potage soup, porridge. See Pottage. ] A porringer. [ Obs. ] Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]