[Ag`ni], the god of fire in the Vedic mythology, begets the gods, organises the world, produces and preserves universal life, and throughout never ceases to be fire. One of the three terms of the Vedic trinity, Soma and Indra being the other two.
[Agnolo], a Florentine artist, friend of Michael Angelo and Raphael, distinguished for his carvings in wood (1460-1543).
[Agnosticism], the doctrine which disclaims all knowledge of the supersensuous, or denies that we know or can know the absolute, the infinite, or God.
[Agnus Dei], the figure of a lamb bearing a cross as a symbol of Christ, or a medal with this device; also a prayer in the Mass beginning with the words, "Lamb of God."
[Agonic line], line along which the needle points due north and south.
[Agora], the forum of a Grecian town.
[Agos`ta], a city on east coast of Sicily.
[Agoult, Countess of], a French authoress under the pseudonym of Daniel Stern (1805-1876).
[Agoust, Capt. de], a "cast-iron" captain of the Swiss Guards, who on May 4, 1788, by order of the Court of Versailles, marched the Parliament of Paris out of the Palais de Justice and carried off the key. See [Carlyle's] "French Revolution," Bk. I. chap. viii.
[Agou`ti], a rodent, native of Brazil, Paraguay, and Guiana; very destructive to roots and sugar-canes.