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Identifier: centurydictionary01whit Title: The Century dictionary and cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world .. Year: 1897 (1890s) Authors: Whitney, William Dwight, 1827-1894 Smith, Benjamin E. (Benjamin Eli), 1857-1913 Subjects: English language Atlases Biography Encyclopedias and dictionaries Publisher: New York : The Century Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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Text Appearing Before Image: intention prob. iJi/j ((J~-), face, appearance.] A genus of acanthopterygian fishes, typical of the family Agriopodida;. A. tarvus, the sea-horse, is about 2 feet in length, and is common on the shores of the Cape of Good H<;ipe. .\lso called Agriopes,agriot, n. See egriot.Agriotes (a-gi-io-tez), n. [NL., < Gr. aypidrtK, ■nikbiess, < a^pioc, wild,<a)po(:, field.] _Agenus ATgrostemma (ag-rp-stema), n. [NTj., < Gr.lij/jdr;, tielil, + aripua, a wreath: see stemma.]A Linnean genus of plants, of the natm-al orderCan/iipliytlacew. it is now generally regarded as a sec-tion of the genus Lychnis, from which it difiers only in theelongated segments of the calyx, and in the petals beingwithout scales. A.i^L.) Githagu, the common corn-cockle,with large entire purple petals, is the only species belong-ing to the section as now limited. There are several va-rieties in cultivation. of coleopterous insects, of the family ^faterirfrt; Agrostis (a-grostis), ii. [NL., < L. agrostis,

Text Appearing After Image: (click-beetles or snapping-beetles), of the pen-tamerous division of the order Coleoptera. Thelarv» of several species, us the Britislivl. lineatiis, are wellknown as wire-worms. See cut under wire-uorm. agrippa (a-gripa), w.; pi. agrippa: (-e). [NL.Cf. L. Agrippa, a Roman family name.] Inohstct.: {a) A person bom with the feet fore-most, {h) Foot-presentation; a footling case. Agrippinian (ag-ri-pini-an), n. [< LL. Agrip-pinidni, pi., < Agrippiniis. a personal name, <L.Agrippa, a Roman family name.] Ecclcs., afollower of AgrippLnus, bishop of Carthage < Gr. aypua-ii;, couch-grass (cf. a-jpuarr/i;, nearlyequiv. to L. agrestis, rm-al, of the field: seeagrestic), < ayp6(, a field, the country.] A largegenus of grasses, distributed overthe globe, andvaluable especially for pasturage. The Englishspecies are known as bent-grass. The marsh-bent, A. alba,was at one time widely known as fiorin. A. imlgaris, cul-tivated for both hay and pasturage, is called in Americared-top, o

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