Asinego (n.) Alt. of Assinego
Assinego (n.) A stupid fellow.
Asinine (a.) Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.
Asininity (n.) The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.
Asiphonate (a.) Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells.
Asiphonate (n.) An asiphonate mollusk.
Asiphonea (n. pl.) Alt. of Asiphonida
Asiphonata (n. pl.) Alt. of Asiphonida
Asiphonida (n. pl.) A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.
Asitia (n.) Want of appetite; loathing of food.
Asked (imp. & p. p.) of Ask
Asking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ask
Ask (v. t.) To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
Ask (v. t.) To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?
Ask (v. t.) To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.
Ask (v. t.) To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
Ask (v. t.) To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.
Ask (v. i.) To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.
Ask (v. i.) To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.
Ask (n.) A water newt.
Askance (adv.) Alt. of Askant
Askant (adv.) Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.
Askance (v. t.) To turn aside.
Asker (n.) One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer.
Asker (n.) An ask; a water newt.
Askew (adv. & a.) Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.
Asking (n.) The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.
Asking (n.) The publishing of banns.
Aslake (v. t. & i.) To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.
Aslant (adv. & a.) Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.
Aslant (prep.) In a slanting direction over; athwart.
Asleep (a. & adv.) In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.
Asleep (a. & adv.) In the sleep of the grave; dead.
Asleep (a. & adv.) Numbed, and, usually, tingling.
Aslope (adv. & a.) Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.
Aslug (adv.) Sluggishly.
Asmear (a.) Smeared over.
Asmonean (a.) Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty.
Asmonean (n.) One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.
Asoak (a.) Soaking.
Asomatous (a.) Without a material body; incorporeal.
Asonant (a.) Not sounding or sounded.
Asp (n.) Same as Aspen.
Asp (n.) A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the Naja haje. The name is also applied to other poisonous serpents, esp. to Vipera aspis of southern Europe. See Haje.
Aspalathus (n.) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil.
Aspalathus (n.) A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosae. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.
Asparagine (n.) A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.
Asparaginous (a.) Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.
Asparagus (n.) A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliaceae, and having erect much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.
Asparagus (n.) The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.
Aspartic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.
Aspect (n.) The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.
Aspect (n.) Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air.
Aspect (n.) Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
Aspect (n.) Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.
Aspect (n.) Prospect; outlook.
Aspect (n.) The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth.
Aspect (n.) The influence of the stars for good or evil; as, an ill aspect.
Aspect (n.) To behold; to look at.
Aspectable (a.) Capable of being; visible.
Aspectant (a.) Facing each other.
Aspected (a.) Having an aspect.
Aspection (n.) The act of viewing; a look.
Aspen (n.) Alt. of Asp
Asp (n.) One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.
Aspen (a.) Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.
Asper (a.) Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.
Asper (n.) The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h/s, "rh`twr, pronounced hra"t/r.
Asper (n.) A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.
Asperated (imp. & p. p.) of Asperate
Asperating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Asperate
Asperate (v. t.) To make rough or uneven.
Asperation (n.) The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
Asperges (n.) The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.
Asperges (n.) The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.
Aspergill (n.) Alt. of Aspergillum
Aspergillum (n.) The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.
Aspergillum (n.) See Wateringpot shell.
Aspergilliform (a.) Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma.
Asperifoliate (a.) Alt. of Asperifolious
Asperifolious (a.) Having rough leaves.
Asperities (pl. ) of Asperity
Asperity (n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.
Asperity (n.) Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
Asperity (n.) Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
Asperity (n.) Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
Asperity (n.) Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
Aspermatous (a.) Aspermous.
Aspermous (a.) Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.
Asperne (v. t.) To spurn; to despise.
Asperous (a.) Rough; uneven.
Aspersed (imp. & p. p.) of Asperse
Aspersing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Asperse
Asperse (v. t.) To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
Asperse (v. t.) To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character.
Aspersed (a.) Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.
Aspersed (a.) Bespattered; slandered; calumniated.
Asperser (n.) One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.
Aspersion (n.) A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.
Aspersion (n.) The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.