A'GIB (_King_), "The Third Calender" (_Arabian Nights' Entertainments_). He was wrecked on the loadstone mountain, which drew all the nails and iron bolts from his ship; but he overthrew the bronze statue on the mountain-top, which was the cause of the mischief. Agib visited the ten young men, each of whom had lost the right eye, and was carried by a roc to the palace of the forty princesses, with whom he tarried a year. The princesses were then obliged to leave for forty days, but entrusted him with the keys of the palace, with free permission to enter every room but one. On the fortieth day curiosity induced him to open this room, where he saw a horse, which he mounted, and was carried through the air to Bag dad. The horse then deposited him, and knocked out his right eye with a whisk of its tail, as it had done the ten "young men" above referred to. AGITATOR (_The Irish_), Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847). AGLAE, the unwedded sister in T. B. Aldrich's poem, _The Sisters' Tragedy_ (1891). Two sisters loved one man. He being dead, Grief loosed the lips of her he had not wed, And all the passion that through heavy years, Had masked in smiles, unmasked itself in tears. AGNEI'A (3 _syl_.), wifely chastity, sister of Parthen'ia or maiden chastity. Agneia is the spouse of Encra'tês or temperance. Fully described in canto x. of _The Purple Island_, by Phineas Fletcher (1633). (Greek, _agneia_, "chastity.") AG'NES, daughter of Mr. Wickfield the solicitor, and David Copperfield's second wife (after the death of Dora, "his child wife"). Agnes is a very pure, self-sacrificing girl, accomplished, yet domestic.--C. Dickens, _David Copperfield_ (1849). AGNES, in Molière's _L'École des Femmes_, the girl on whom Arnolphe tries his pet experiment of education, so as to turn out for himself a "model wife." She is brought up in a country convent, where she is kept in entire ignorance of the difference of sex, conventional proprieties, the difference between the love of men and women, and that of girls for girls, the mysteries of marriage, and so on. When grown to womanhood she quits the convent, and standing one evening on a balcony a young man passes and takes off his hat to her, she returns the salute; he bows a second and third time, she does the same; he passes and repasses several times, bowing each time, and she does as she has been taught to do by acknowledging the salute. Of course, the young man (_Horace_) becomes her lover, whom she marries, and M. Arnolphe loses his "model wife." (See PINCH-WIFE.) _Elle fait l'Agnès._ She pretends to be wholly unsophisticated and verdantly ingenuous.--_French Proverb_ (from the "Agnes" of Molière, _L'École des Femmes_, 1662). _Agnes_ (_Black_), the countess of March, noted for her defence of Dunbar against the English. _Black Agnes_, the palfry of Mary queen of Scots, the gift of her brother Moray, and so called from the noted countess of March, who was countess of Moray (Murray) in her own right.