ag-, agen-, act-, agi-, agit-

1. A usually unintended consequence of an action, decision, or judgment that may complicate the situation or make the intended result more difficult to achieve.
2. The process of dividing or spreading out into branches.
3. A branch or arrangement of branches.
4. Forming, or developing into, a branch.

1. To sit in a crouching position with knees bent and the buttocks on or near the heels.
2. To crouch down, as an animal does.
3. To settle on unoccupied land without legal claim.
4. To occupy a given piece of public land in order to acquire title to it.
5. Etymology: "to crouch on the heels", from Old French esquatir, "press down, lay flat, crush"; from es-, "out" (from Latin ex-) + Old French quatir, "press down, flatten"; from Vulgar Latin coactire "to press together, to force"; from Latin coactus, past participle of cogere, "to compel, to curdle, to collect"; from co- + agere, "to drive".

1. An illegal occupant of land or property; especially, someone who takes over and lives in another person's empty house.
2. A person or animal that crouches down.