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Agar   /ˈeɪgər/   Listen
Agar

noun
1.
Any culture medium that uses agar as the gelling agent.  Synonym: nutrient agar.
2.
A colloidal extract of algae; used especially in culture media and as a gelling agent in foods.  Synonym: agar-agar.



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... "She was a very old woman, about the age of fourescore."] Dr. Henry More would have styled old Demdike "An eximious example of Moses, his Mecassephah, the word which he uses in that law,—Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live." Margaret Agar and Julian Cox, (see Glanvill's Collection of Relations, p. 135, edition 1682,) on whom he dwells with such delighted interest, were very inferior subjects to what, in his hands, Elizabeth Sothernes ...
— Discovery of Witches - The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster • Thomas Potts



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