Ag`e*nes"ic (&?;), a. [See Agensis.] (Physiol.) Characterized by sterility; infecund.
||A*gen"e*sis (&?;), n. [Gr. 'a priv. + &?; birth.] (Physiol.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.
||Ag`en*ne"sis (&?;), n. [Gr. 'a priv. + &?; an engendering.] (Physiol.) Impotence; sterility.
A"gent (&?;), a. [L. agens, agentis, p. pr. of agere to act; akin to Gr. &?; to lead, Icel. aka to drive, Skr. aj. √2.] Acting; -- opposed to patient, or sustaining, action. [Archaic] "The body agent." Bacon.
A"gent, n. 1. One who exerts power, or has the power to act; an actor.
Heaven made us agents, free to good or ill.
Dryden.
2. One who acts for, or in the place of, another, by authority from him; one intrusted with the business of another; a substitute; a deputy; a factor.
3. An active power or cause; that which has the power to produce an effect; as, a physical, chemical, or medicinal agent; as, heat is a powerful agent.
A*gen"tial (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to an agent or an agency. Fitzed. Hall.
A"gent*ship (&?;), n. Agency. Beau. & Fl.
||A*ger"a*tum (&?;), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; a sort of plant; 'a priv. + &?; old age.] (Bot.) A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) has lavender- blue flowers in dense clusters.
Ag*gen`er*a"tion (&?;), n. [L. aggenerare to beget in addition. See Generate.] The act of producing in addition. [Obs.] T. Stanley.
||Ag"ger (&?;), n. [L., a mound, fr. aggerere to bear to a place, heap up; ad + gerere to bear.] An earthwork; a mound; a raised work. [Obs.] Hearne.
Ag"ger*ate (&?;), v. t. [L. aggeratus, p. p. of aggerare. See Agger.] To heap up. [Obs.] Foxe.
Ag`ger*a"tion (&?;), n. [L. aggeratio.] A heaping up; accumulation; as, aggerations of sand. [R.]
Ag`ger*ose" (&?;), a. In heaps; full of heaps.
Ag*gest" (&?;), v. t. [L. aggestus, p. p. of aggerere. See Agger.] To heap up. [Obs.]
The violence of the waters aggested the earth.
Fuller.
Ag*glom"er*ate (&?;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Agglomerated (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Agglomerating (&?;).] [L. agglomeratus, p. p. of agglomerare; ad + glomerare to form into a ball. See Glomerate.] To wind or collect into a ball; hence, to gather into a mass or anything like a mass.
Where he builds the agglomerated pile.
Cowper.
Ag*glom"er*ate, v. i. To collect in a mass.
{ Ag*glom"er*ate (&?;), Ag*glom"er*a`ted (&?;), } a. 1. Collected into a ball, heap, or mass.