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Agiotage
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.
Anecdotage
Anecdotage An"ec*do`tage, n.
Anecdotes collectively; a collection of anecdotes.
All history, therefore, being built partly, and some of
it altogether, upon anecdotage, must be a tissue of
lies. --De Quincey.
Ballotage
Ballotage Bal"lot*age, n. [F. ballottage.]
In France, a second ballot taken after an indecisive first
ballot to decide between two or several candidates.
Cabotage
Cabotage Cab"o*tage, n. [F. cabotage, fr. caboter to sail
along the coast; cf. Sp. cabo cape.] (Naut.)
Navigation along the coast; the details of coast pilotage.
DotageDotage Do"tage, n. [From Dote, v. i.]
1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind,
particularly in old age; the childishness of old age;
senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and
the dotage of Greek literature. --Macaulay.
2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. --
Milton.
3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
The dotage of the nation on presbytery. -- Bp.
Burnet. FlotageFlotage Flo"tage, n. [OF. flotage, F. flottage, fr. flotter to
float.]
1. The state of floating.
2. That which floats on the sea or in rivers. [Written also
floatage.] Pelotage
Pelotage Pel"o*tage, n. [F.]
Packs or bales of Spanish wool.
PotagePotage Pot"age (?; 48), n.
See Pottage. potagePottage Pot"tage (?; 48), n. [F. potage, fr. pot pot. See
Pot, and cf. Porridge, Porringer.]
A kind of food made by boiling vegetables or meat, or both
together, in water, until soft; a thick soup or porridge.
[Written also potage.] --Chaucer.
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentils.
--Gen. xxv.
34. PotagerPotager Pot"a*ger, n. [F. fr. potage soup, porridge. See
Pottage.]
A porringer. [Obs.] --Grew.
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