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

A low fire used in chemical operations.

A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

pale gray; ash-colored.

pale gray; ash-colored.

the winged seed of the ash tree.

a receptacle fitted beneath the grate in which ashes collect and are removed.

To shame.

Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.

Bashfully.

Of or pertaining to Ashantee.

a bin that holds rubbish until it is collected.

obs. pl. for Ashes.

A depository for ashes.

The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.

The capital city of Turkmenistan. Population (2000) = 518,000.

Shining; radiant.

Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.

The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.

On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.

The principal female divinity of the Ph/nicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.

Goutweed.

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic. An Asiatic.

One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.

Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. A native, or one of the people, of Asia.

Something peculiar to Asia or the Asiatics.

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.

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.

To cover with asphalt; as, to asphalt a roof; asphalted streets.

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.