*Ægrotat* (or *Æger*), _subs._ (University).—(1) A medical certificate excusing attendance. (2) The degree taken by those so excused. READING ÆGROTAT = leave taken (generally in December) to read for one’s degree. [Lat. _ægrotare_.] 1794. _Gent. Mag._, p. 1085. They [at Cambridge] sported an ÆGROTAT, and they sported a new coat! 1853. BRADLEY, _Verdant Green_, iv. “That there’s the ‘All, sir, _that_ is,—where you dines, sir, leastways when you ain’t ‘Æger,’ or elseweer.” _Ibid._, viii.—“Not very well, Robert, thank you. I—my head aches, and I’m afraid I shall not be able to get up for chapel.”... “If you’ll leave it to me, sir, I’ll make it all right for you, _I_ will. Of course you’d like to take out an ÆGER, sir; and I can bring you your Commons just the same.” 1864. BABBAGE, _Passages from the Life of a Philosopher_, 37. I sent my servant to the apothecary for a thing called an ÆGROTAT, which I understood ... meant a certificate that I was indisposed. 1870. _Chambers’s Journal_, June 18, p. 395. Dick laughed. “I’ll get the receipt from him. I often want a good thing for an ÆGER.” 1888. H. SMART, in _Temple Bar_, February, p. 213. “Instead of applying for leave to my tutor, I had resorted to the old device of pricking ÆGER.” 1890. _Felstedian_, Feb., p. 2. What’s up ... with Smith? He went ÆGER before school this afternoon. I expect he’s rather bad; he is not the fellow to go ÆGER for nothing. I do hate that ÆGER-room. *After Four.* _See_ FOUR. *Afternoon-tea*, _subs._ (Royal High School, Edin.).—Detention after 3 o’clock. *After Twelve.* _See_ TWELVE. *-agger*, _inseparable suffix_ (Charterhouse).—As in COMBINAGGERS, a combination suit of pyjamas. *Alderman*, _subs._ (Felsted: obsolete).—A qualified swimmer. [From “The Alders,” a deep pool in the river Chelmer.] 1893. _Felstedian_, June, p. 79. Years ago there existed at Felsted a class of beings known as “Swimming ALDERMEN.” What they were, and whence they came, I know not; perhaps some Old Felstedian will be able to enlighten me on the point. Perhaps the name was given to those who could swim so many times from the “Alders” to “Duck-pond”; or, perhaps, the name was derived from the aldermanic proportions of the swimmer. _Ibid._ (1895, Ap., p. 44). A fourth term, “ALDERMAN,” was not in the list. It has certainly “been dead lengthy” but was once prized by its possessors, who had to swim so many times from the “Duck Pond” to “The Alders” before they could gain the title. Ten lengths of the new bath would afford a fair test, and ALDERMEN might have some privilege or other. Its revival would be a good thing, for there has of late been a tendency to prefer diving to swimming. *All.* _See_ ALONG; IN; OUT; and ON. *Allows*, _subs._ (Harrow).—The weekly allowance of 2s., from which breakages, &c., are stopped.