Asking
Ask″ing, n. 1. The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.2. The publishing of banns.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Aslake
A‐slake″ (ȧ‐slāk″), v. t. & i. [AS. āslacian, slacian, to slacken. Cf. Slake.] To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. Chaucer.
Aslant
A‐slant″ (�), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slant.] Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.drove through his neck aslant.Dryden.
Aslant (2)
A‐slant″, prep. In a slanting direction over; athwart.There is a willow grows aslant a brook.Shak.
Asleep
A‐sleep″, a. & adv. [Pref. a- + sleep.] 1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.Fast asleep the giant lay supine.Dryden.By whispering winds soon lulled asleep.Milton.2. In the...
Aslope
A‐slope″ (�), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slope.] Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. “Set them not upright, but aslope.” Bacon.
Aslug
A‐slug″ (�), adv. [Pref. a- + slug to move slowly.] Sluggishly. Fotherby.
Asmear
A‐smear″ (�), a. [Pref. a- + smear.] Smeared over. Dickens.
Asmonean
As′mo‐ne″an (�), a. Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty. [Written also Asmonæan.]
Asmonean (2)
As′mo‐ne″an, n. One of the Asmonean family. The Asmoneans were leaders and rulers of the Jews from 168 to 35 b. c.
Asoak
A‐soak″ (�), a. [Pref. a- + soak.] Soaking.
Asomatous
A‐so″ma‐tous (�), a. [L. asomatus, Gr. �; ἀ priv. + � body.] Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.
Asonant
As″o‐nant (�), a. [Pref. a- not + sonant.] Not sounding or sounded. C. C. Felton.
Asp
Asp (�), n.(Bot.) Same as Aspen. “Trembling poplar or asp.” Martyn.
Asp (2)
Asp (ȧsp), n. [L. aspis, fr. Gr. ασπἴσ: cf. OF. aspe, F. aspic.] (Zoöl.) A small, hooded, poisonous serpent of Egypt and adjacent countries, whose bite is often fatal. It is the...
Aspalathus
‖As‐pal″a‐thus (�), n. [L. aspalathus, Gr. �.] (Bot.) (a) A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15. (b) A genus of plants of the natural order Leguminosæ. The sp...
Asparagine
As‐par″a‐gine (�), n. [Cf. F. asparagine.] (Chem.) A white, nitrogenous, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is b...
Asparaginous
As′pa‐rag″i‐nous (�), a. Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.
Asparagus
As‐par″a‐gus (ăs‐păr″ȧ‐gŭs), n. [L., fr. Gr. ασπἄραγοσ, ασφἄραγοσ; cf. σπαργα̑ν to swell with sap or juice, and Zend çparegha prong, sprout, Pers. asparag, Lith. spurgas sprout,...
Aspartic
As‐par″tic (�), a.(Chem.) Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.
Aspect
As″pect (�), n. [L. aspectus, fr. aspicere, aspectum, to look at; ad + spicere, specere, to look, akin to E. spy.] 1. The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance. “The basilisk kil...
Aspect (2)
As‐pect″ (�), v. t. [L. aspectare, v. intens. of aspicere. See Aspect, n.] To behold; to look at.
Aspect (3)
As″pect, n.(Aëronautics) A view of a plane from a given direction, usually from above; more exactly, the manner of presentation of a plane to a fluid through which it is moving ...
Aspect ratio
Aspect ratio. (Aëronautics) The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.
Aspectable
As‐pect″a‐ble (�), a. [L. aspectabilis.] Capable of being; visible. “The aspectable world.” Ray. “Aspectable stars.” Mrs. Browning.
Aspectant
As‐pect″ant (�), a.(Her.) Facing each other.
Aspected
As‐pect″ed, a. Having an aspect. B. Jonson.