English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Asafetida
(n.)
Alt. of Asafoetida
Asafoetida
(n.)
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.
Asaphus
(n.)
A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian
formation. See Illust. in Append.
Asarabacca
(n.)
An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europaeum), the
leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally
used in cephalic snuffs.
Asarone
(n.)
A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained
from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum.
Asbestic
(a.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable;
asbestine.
Asbestiform
(a.)
Having the form or structure of asbestus.
Asbestine
(a.)
Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its
nature; incombustible; asbestic.
Asbestos
(n.)
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.
Asbestous
(a.)
Asbestic.
Asbestus
(n.)
Alt. of Asbestos
Asbolin
(n.)
A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.
Ascarid
(n.)
A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. 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.
Ascarides
(pl. )
of Ascarid
Ascend
(v. i.)
To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed
to descend.
Ascend
(v. t.)
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.
Ascend
(v. i.)
To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an
inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from
particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to
another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest
antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
Ascendable
(a.)
Capable of being ascended.
Ascendance
(n.)
Same as Ascendency.
Ascendancy
(n.)
Alt. of Ascendance