‖n.; pl. Agones [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to lead. ] (Gr. Antiq.) A contest for a prize at the public games. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & adv. Ago. [ Archaic & Poet. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Agonic. ] Agonic line. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; without angles; 'a priv. + &unr_; an angle. ] Not forming an angle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Agonic line (Physics), an imaginary line on the earth's surface passing through those places where the magnetic needle points to the true north; the line of no magnetic variation. There is one such line in the Western hemisphere, and another in the Eastern hemisphere. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to contend for a prize, fr. &unr_;. See Agon. ] Contention for a prize; a contest. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] One who contends for the prize in public games. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Agonism. ] Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. [ 1913 Webster ]

As a scholar, he [ Dr. Parr ] was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an agonistic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The science of athletic combats, or contests in public games. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Agonized p. pr. & vb. n. Agonizing ] [ F. agoniser, LL. agonizare, fr. Gr. &unr_;. See Agony. ] 1. To writhe with agony; to suffer violent anguish. [ 1913 Webster ]

To smart and agonize at every pore. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To struggle; to wrestle; to strive desperately. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause to suffer agony; to subject to extreme pain; to torture. [ 1913 Webster ]

He agonized his mother by his behavior. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. expressing pain or agony. agonized screams [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. causing agony. Opposite to painless.
Syn. -- excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. With extreme anguish or desperate struggles. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; to set. appoint. ] [ Antiq. ] An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to the office of an agonothete. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Agonies [ L. agonia, Gr. &unr_;, orig. a contest, fr. &unr_;: cf. F. agonie. See Agon. ] 1. Violent contest or striving. [ 1913 Webster ]

The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain of mind or body; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in the garden of Gethsemane. [ 1913 Webster ]

Being in an agony he prayed more earnestly. Luke xxii. 44. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. [ 1913 Webster ]

With cries and agonies of wild delight. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The last struggle of life; death struggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Anguish; torment; throe; distress; pangs; suffering. -- Agony, Anguish, Pang. These words agree in expressing extreme pain of body or mind. Agony denotes acute and permanent pain, usually of the whole system., and often producing contortions. Anguish denotes severe pressure, and, considered as bodily suffering, is more commonly local (as anguish of a wound), thus differing from agony. A pang is a paroxysm of excruciating pain. It is severe and transient. The agonies or pangs of remorse; the anguish of a wounded conscience. “Oh, sharp convulsive pangs of agonizing pride!” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Var. of Algonquian. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Geol.) Pertaining to or designating a period or era recognized by the United States Geological Survey and some other authorities, between the Archæan and the Paleozoic, from both of which it is generally separated in the record by unconformities. Algonkian rocks are both sedimentary and igneous. Although fossils are rare, life certainly existed in this period. -- n. The Algonkian period or era, or system or group of systems. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } prop. n. One of a widely spread family of Indians, including many distinct tribes, which formerly occupied most of the northern and eastern part of North America. The name was originally applied to a group of Indian tribes north of the River St. Lawrence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the linguistic families of North American Indians, their territory formerly including practically all of Canada east of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly 100, 000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees, Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n. An Algonquian Indian. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; obtuse + &unr_; angle: cf. F. amblygone. ] (Geom.) An obtuse-angled figure, esp. and obtuse-angled triangle. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Obtuse-angled. [ Obs. ] Hutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to amphigony; sexual; as, amphigonic propagation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'amfi` + &unr_; a begetting. ] Relating to both parents. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sexual propagation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Analogue. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL.; Gr. 'anh`r, 'andro`s, man + pw`gwn the beard. ] (Bot.) A very large and important genus of grasses, found in nearly all parts of the world. It includes the lemon grass of Ceylon and the beard grass, or broom sedge, of the United States. The principal subgenus is Sorghum, including Andropogon sorghum and Andropogon halepensis, from which have been derived the Chinese sugar cane, the Johnson grass, the Aleppo grass, the broom corn, and the durra, or Indian millet. Several East Indian species, as Andropogon nardus and Andropogon schœnanthus, yield fragrant oils, used in perfumery. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Gr. 'antagw`nisma, fr. 'antagwni`zesqai to struggle against; 'anti` against + 'agwni`zesqai to contend or struggle, 'agw`n contest: cf. F. antagonisme. See Agony. ] Opposition of action; counteraction or contrariety of things or principles. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ We speak of antagonism between two things, to or against a thing, and sometimes with a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Antagonistic; opposing; counteracting; as, antagonist schools of philosophy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. antagonista, Gr. 'antagwnisth`s; 'anti` against + 'agwnisth`s combatant, champion, fr. 'agwni`zesqai: cf. F. antagoniste. See Antagonism. ] 1. One who contends with another, especially in combat; an adversary; an opponent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Antagonist of Heaven's Almighty King. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Our antagonists in these controversies. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A muscle which acts in opposition to another; as a flexor, which bends a part, is the antagonist of an extensor, which extends it. AS [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A substance which opposes the actions of another substance in the body, especially a drgu that counteracts the effects of another drug. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

Syn. -- Adversary; enemy; opponent; foe; competitor. See Adversary. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Opposing in combat, combating; contending or acting against; as, antagonistic forces. -- An*tag`o*nis"tic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

They were distinct, adverse, even antagonistic. Milman. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. muscles having opposite effects; the contraction of one neutralizes the contraction of the other.
Syn. -- antagonistic muscles. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Antagonized p. pr. & vb. n. Antagonozing. ] [ Gr. &unr_;. See Antagonism. ] To contend with; to oppose actively; to counteract. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To act in opposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'anti` + &unr_; contest: cf. F. (16th century) antagonie. See Antagonism. ] Contest; opposition; antagonism. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Antagony that is between Christ and Belial. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Aragon, in Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Aragon, in Spain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Aragon, in Spain. ] (Min.) A mineral composed of calcium carbonate and identical in composition with calcite, but differing from it in its crystalline form and some of its physical characters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to the archegonium.
Syn. -- archegoniate, archegonical. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to an archegonium.
Syn. -- archegonial [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bearing archegonia.
Syn. -- archegonial [ PJC ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; the first of a race. ] (Bot.) The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Archegonium. ] (Biol.) Spontaneous generation; abiogenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;, neut. of &unr_; inactive; &unr_; priv. + &unr_; work. ] (Chem.) A colorless, odorless gas occurring in the air (of which it constitutes 0.93 per cent by volume), in volcanic gases, etc.; -- so named on account of its inertness by Rayleigh and Ramsay, who prepared and examined it in 1894-95. Symbol, A; at. wt., 39.9. Argon is condensible to a colorless liquid boiling at -186.1° C. and to a solid melting at -189.6° C. It has a characteristic spectrum. No compounds of it are known, but there is physical evidence that its molecule is monatomic. Weight of one liter at 0° C. and 760 mm., 1.7828 g. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L. Argonauta, Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; + &unr_; sailor, &unr_; ship. See Argo. ] 1. Any one of the legendary Greek heroes who sailed with Jason, in the Argo, in quest of the Golden Fleece. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) A cephalopod of the genus Argonauta. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One of those who went to California in search of gold shortly after it was discovered there in 1848. [ U. S. ] Bret Harte. [ 1913 Webster ]

The “Argonauts of '49” were a strong, self-reliant, generous body of men. D. S. Jordan. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖n. (Zool.) A genus of Cephalopoda. The shell is called paper nautilus or paper sailor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The animal has much resemblance to an Octopus. It has eight arms, two of which are expanded at the end and clasp the shell, but are never elevated in the air for sails as was formerly supposed. The creature swims beneath the surface by means of a jet of water, like other cephalopods. The male has no shell, and is much smaller than the female. See Hectocotylus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. Argonauticus. ] Of or pertaining to the Argonauts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 a family of cephalopods represented solely by the genus Argonauta.
Syn. -- family Argonautidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. an American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the Armistice on November 11.
Syn. -- Meuse, Meuse River, Argonne Forest, Meuse-Argonne, Meuse-Argonne operation [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. See Aragonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Astrogeny. -- As`*tro*gon"ic a. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. A popular trend that attracts growing support. “when they saw how things were going everybody jumped on the bandwagon.” [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A large ornate wagon for carrying a musical band. “the bandwagon led the circus parade” [ WordNet 1.5 ]