Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.

Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.

The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.

Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells. An asiphonate mollusk.

A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

Want of appetite; loathing of food.

A water newt.

To turn aside.

toward the side, rather than directly ahead; -- used of a glance.

Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.

An ask; a water newt.

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry.

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

same as American sign language, the sign language used in the US.

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish.

In a slanting direction over; athwart.

In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.

Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

Sluggishly.

The capital city of Eritrea. Population (2000) = 400,000.

Smeared over.

One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.

Soaking.

Without a material body; incorporeal.

Not sounding or sounded.

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.

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.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminos/. The species are chiefly natives of the Cape of Good Hope.

one of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae: includes genera Asparagus and sometimes Ruscus.

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.

Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.

A genus of perennial plants belonging to the natural order Liliace/, 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.

an artificial sweetener containing an aspartic acid peptide, (C14H18N2O5); it is 160 times sweeter than sucrose (cane sugar) and is used as a calorie-free sweetener. Chemically it is N-L-/-aspartyl-L-phenylalanine-1-methyl ester. It is sold also under the trade name Equal.

Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

To behold; to look at.

Capable of being; visible.

Facing each other.

Having an aspect.

The act of viewing; a look.

Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.

A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.

To make rough or uneven.

The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.

The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water. The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma.

The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.

Having rough leaves.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.

Aspermous.

Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.

To spurn; to despise.

Rough; uneven.

To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.

One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous.

An aspergill.

The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches.

Asphaltic mastic or cement. See Asphalt, 2.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous.

Asphaltic.

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.

See Asphalt.

A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers.

small genus of tall striking annuals or perennials with grasslike foliage and flowers in dense racemes or panicles; Mediterranean to Himalayas; sometimes placed in family Asphodelaceae.

Pertaining to asphyxia.

Of or relating to asphyxia; as, asphyxial phenomena.

To bring to a state of asphyxia; to suffocate. [Used commonly in the past pple.]

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

In a state of asphyxia; suffocated.

Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of poisonous or irrespirable gases.

A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc.

an evergreen perennial (Aspidistra elatio) with large handsome basal leaves; grown primarily as a foliage houseplant.

A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

a genus comprising the alligatorfishes.

One who aspires; one who eagerly seeks some high position or object of attainment.

A sound consisting of, or characterized by, a breath like the sound of h; the breathing h or a character representing such a sound; an aspirated sound.

Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath.

The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.

An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air

Aspiration.

Aspiration.

One who aspires.

A white crystalline compound, acetyl salicylic acid (CH3.CO.O.C6H4.CO.OH) widely used as a drug for relief of pain and alleviation of fever. It has analgesic, antipyretic, and antiinflammatory properties, and is one of a class of agents called non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The name was originally a trade name, but has become the preferred name for the substance. It is actually a prodrug, liberating salicylic acid, the ultimate pharmacologically active agent, in the intestines. It is more effective when taken orally than is salicylic acid, because it dissolves more readily.

That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind.

Pertaining to, or like, an asp.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

Sprawling.

Squatting.

With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.

A quadruped of the genus Equus (Equus asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.

Same as Asafetida.

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

Capable of being assailed.

One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer.

One who assails.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.

The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. A native or natives of Assam.

The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella).

To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.

To assassinate.

An assassination, murder, or murderous assault.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

An assassin.

Murderous.

Roasting.

To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.

Capable of being assaulted.

sexually abused; -- a euphemism.

One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant.

making an assault.

To attempt, try, or endeavor.

That may be assayed.

One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver.

The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.

A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.