to fix, to root to the spot with terror; akin to L. haerere to stick fast, cling. See Gaze, Hesitate.] Terrified; struck
with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror.
Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed,
Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread.
Dryden.
The commissioners read and stood aghast.
Macaulay.
Agible
(Ag"i*ble) a. [Cf. LL. agibilis, fr. L. agere to move, do.] Possible to be done; practicable. [Obs.]
"Fit for agible things." Sir A. Sherley.
Agile
(Ag"ile) a. [F. agile, L. agilis, fr. agere to move. See Agent.] Having the faculty of quick motion
in the limbs; apt or ready to move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.
Shaking it with agile hand.
Cowper.
Syn. — Active; alert; nimble; brisk; lively; quick.
Agilely
(Ag"ile*ly), adv. In an agile manner; nimbly.
Agileness
(Ag"ile*ness), n. Agility; nimbleness. [R.]
Agility
(A*gil"i*ty) n. [F. agilié, L. agilitas, fr. agilis.]
1. The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness
of motion; as, strength and agility of body.
They . . . trust to the agility of their wit.
Bacon.
Wheeling with the agility of a hawk.
Sir W. Scott.
2. Activity; powerful agency. [Obs.]
The agility of the sun's fiery heat.
Holland.
Agio
(Ag"i*o) n.; pl. Agios [It. aggio exchange, discount, premium, the same word as agio ease.
See Ease.] (Com.) The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange
for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
Agiotage
(Ag"i*o*tage) n. [F. agiotage, fr. agioter to practice stockjobbing, fr. agio.] Exchange business; also,
stockjobbing; the maneuvers of speculators to raise or lower the price of stocks or public funds.
Vanity and agiotage are to a Parisian the oxygen and hydrogen of life.
Landor.
Agist
(A*gist") 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 jacre 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.
Agistator
(Ag`is*ta"tor) n. [LL.] See Agister.
Agister
(A*gist"er, A*gist"or) 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.
Agistment
(A*gist"ment) 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
