Works of art collectively.

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.

In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile; unaffectedly.

The quality of being artless, or void of art or guile; simplicity; sincerity.

With art or skill.

Of or pertaining to the breadfruit, or to the genus Artocarpus.

A kind of autotype.

One of a sect in the primitive church, who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks. [Gen. iv. 3, 4.]

A man skilled in an art or in arts.

same as arty.

pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming.

photographs, illustrations, or other visual representations other than the text, in a printed publication.

showily imitative of art or artists.

pretentiously artistic; cloyingly charming

an erect European annual (Eruca vesicaria sativa) of the mustard family, often grown as a salad crop to be harvested when young and tender.

a wild sheep (Ammotragus lervia) of northern Africa, having a thick mane on the throat, chest, and forelegs; -- also called the aoudad and Barbary sheep.

A genus of plants found in central Europe and about the Mediterranean, having flowers on a spadix inclosed in a spathe. The cuckoopint of the English is an example.

Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.

Producing reeds or canes.

Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.

Abounding with reeds; reedy.

mother and earth goddess in Gilgamish epic; identified with Sumerian Ki and Ninkhursag (Mama; Nintu).

One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods.

A soothsayer of ancient Rome. Same as Aruspex.

Prognostication by inspection of the entrails of victims slain sacrifice.

A funeral feast.

a genus of mice in some classifications considered synonymous with Microtus.

A mouse of the genus Arvicola; the meadow mouse. There are many species.

Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.

To make Aryan (a language, or in language).

Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.

Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden.

A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

An ancient name of a gum.

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East Indies. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic.

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europ/um), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europ/um; -- called also camphor of asarum.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.

Having the form or structure of asbestus.

Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.

A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

Asbestic.

A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.

the American Society of Cinematographers.

the American Society of Cinematographers.

a natural family containing only one species of frog: the tailed frog.

the type genus of the Ascaphidae; in some classifications included in the family Leiopelmatidae.

A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

A parasitic nematoid worm, especially the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

a natural family of large roundworms parasitic in intestines of vertebrates.

a roundworm having a preanal sucker.

the type genus of the family Ascaridae: roundworms with a three-lipped mouth.

To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.

Capable of being ascended.

Same as Ascendency.

Ascent; height; elevation.

Governing or controlling influence; the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; domination; power.

position or state of being dominant or in control.

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.

Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite.

The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon.

Rising; tending to rise, or causing to rise.

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.

That may be ascertained.

One who ascertains.

The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.

See Acescency, Acescent.

In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic

The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.

A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.

See Ascus.

One of the Ascii.

Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj.

The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.

Shaped like an ascidian.

A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.

One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See Ascidioidea.

A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).

Having asci.

the American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a code consisting of a set of 128 7-bit combinations used in digital computers internally, for display purposes, and for exchanging data between computers. It is very widely used, but because of the limited number of characters encoded must be supplemented or replaced by other codes for encoding special symbols or words in languages other than English. Also used attributively; -- as, an ASCII file.

A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum.

Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.

Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.

A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.

a widely distributed family of herbs and shrubs most with milky juice; examples are the milkweeds (genus Asclepias).

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.

A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.

In ascomycetous fungi, the spherical, discoid, or cup-shaped body within which the asci are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

of or pertaining to an ascocarp.

A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

a lichen in which the fungus component is an ascomycete.

an ascocarp having the spore-bearing layer of cells (the hymenium) on a broad disklike receptacle.

any fungus of the class Ascomycetes (or subdivision Ascomycota) in which the spores are formed inside an ascus.

A large class of higher fungi distinguished by septate hyph/, and by having their spores formed in asci, or spore sacs; the sac fungi. It comprises many orders, among which are the yeasts, molds, mildews, truffles, morels, etc. The class is coextensive with the phylum Ascomycota.

of or pertaining to ascomycetes.

a phylum of higher fungi, coextensive with the class Ascomycetes. It comprises Hemiascomycetes; Plectomycetes; Pyrenomycetes; Discomycetessac fungi; in some classification systems it is considered a division of the kingdom Fungi.

same as Ascomycota.

a genus of brown algae distinguished by compressed or inflated branchlets along the axis.

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.]

of or pertaining to an ascospore.

a cravat with wide square ends, tied so that the ends are laid flat; the ends are often secured with an ornamental pin; -- called cravat in Britain.

Capable of being ascribed; attributable.

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.

See Adscript.

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

Ascribed.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

Loss of power to express, or to understand, symbols or signs of thought.

State of being aseptic; the methods or processes of asepticizing.

An aseptic substance.

Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.

having no evident sex or sex organs.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.

To strew or sprinkle with ashes.

Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.