ASKEW
ASKEW', adverbWith a wry look; aside; askant; sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or envy.
Dicionário
Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
Buscar
Encontrar uma palavra ou entrada
Letra atual
A
4.650 entradas
ASKING
'ASKING, participle present tense1. Requesting; petitioning; interrogating; inquiring.2. Silently expressing request or desire.Explain the asking eye.
ASLAKE
ASLA'KE, verb transitive [See Slack.]To remit; to slacken. [Not in use.]
ASLANI
ASLA'NI, noun A silver coin worth from 115 to 120 aspers.
ASLANT
ASL'ANT, adjective or adverb [a and slant. See Slant.]On one side; obliquely; not perpendicularly or with a right angle.The shaft drove through his neck aslant
ASLEEP
ASLEE'P, adjective or adverb [a and sleep.]1. sleeping; in a state of sleep; at rest.Sisera was fast asleep Judges 4:21.2. To a state of sleep; as to fall asleep3. Dead; in a st...
ASLOPE
ASLO'PE, adjective or adverb [a and slope. See Slope.With leaning or inclination; obliquely; with declivity or descent, as a hill; declining from an upright direction.Set them n...
ASLUG
ASLUG', ad. In a sluggish manner. [Not used.]
ASMONEAN
ASMONE'AN, adjective Pertaining to Asmoneus, the father of Simon, and chief of the Asmoneans, a family that reigned over the Jews 126 years.ASMONE'AN, noun One of the family of ...
ASOMATOUS
ASO'MATOUS, adjective [Gr. priv and body.]Without a material body; incorporeal. [Not used.]
ASP
'ASP,ASPAL'ATHUS, noun A plant.
ASPARAGIN
ASPAR'AGIN, noun White transparent crystals of a peculiar vegetable principle, which spontaneously form in asparagus juice evaporated to the consistence of syrup. They are in th...
ASPARAGUS
ASPAR'AGUS, noun [Latin and Gr. probably from to tear, from its lacerated appearance, or from the root of a spire, from its stem.]Asparagus, sperage, vulgarly, sparrow-grass; a ...
ASPECT
'ASPECT, noun [Latin aspectus, from aspicio, to look on, of ad and specio, to see or look.]1. Look; view; appearance to the eye or the mind; as, to present an object or a subjec...
ASPECTABLE
ASPECT'ABLE, adjective That may be seen. [Not used.]
ASPECTED
ASPECT'ED, adjective Having an aspect. [Not used.]
ASPECTION
ASPEC'TION, noun The act of viewing. [Not used.]
ASPEN
ASP'EN or ASP, nounA species of the poplar, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air. Its leaves are roundish, smooth, and st...
ASPER
AS'PER, adjective [Latin See Asperate.] Rough; rugged. [Little used.]AS'PER, noun [Latin aspiro, to breathe.]In grammar, the Greek accent, importing that the letter over which i...
ASPERATE
AS'PERATE, verb transitive [Latin aspero, from asper, rough.]To make rough or uneven.
ASPERATION
ASPERA'TION, noun A making rough.
ASPERIFOLIATE
ASPERIFO'LIATE, adjective [Latin asper, rough, and folium, a leaf.]Having rough leaves. Plants of this kind are, by some authors, classified according to this character. They co...
ASPERIFOLIOUS
ASPERIFO'LIOUS, adjective Having leaves rough to the touch. [See the preceding word.]
ASPERITY
ASPER'ITY, noun [Latin asperitas, from asper, rough.]1. Roughness of surface; unevenness; opposed to smoothness.2. Roughness of sound; that quality which grates the ear; harshne...
ASPEROUS
AS'PEROUS, adjective [Latin asper, rough.] Rough; uneven.
ASPERSE
ASPERSE, verb transitive aspers'. [Latin aspergo, aspersus, of ad and spargo, to scatter.]1. To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point o...
ASPERSER
ASPERS'ER, n One that asperses, or villifies another.