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Agistor: Definition and part of speech

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Agistor

  1. n. Now, one who agists or takes in cattle to pasture at a certain rate; a pasturer.
  2. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Agistment: Definition and part of speech

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Agistment

  1. n. A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes.
  2. n. Formerly, the taking and feeding of other men’s cattle in the king’s forests.
  3. n. The taking in by any one of other men’s cattle to graze at a certain rate.
  4. n. The price paid for such feeding.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Agitate: Definition and part of speech

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Agitate

  1. v. t. To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.
  2. v. t. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel.
  3. v. t. To move or actuate.
  4. v. t. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly agitated.
  5. v. t. To discuss with great earnestness; to debate; as, a controversy hotly agitated.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.