English English Dictionary

English English Dictionary

The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg

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Ascribable (a.)
Capable of being ascribed; attributable.
Ascribe (v. t.)
To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
Ascribe (v. t.)
To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.
Ascribed (imp. & p. p.)
of Ascribe
Ascribing (p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Ascribe
Ascript (a.)
See Adscript.
Ascription (n.)
The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.
Ascribed.
Added; additional.
Ascus (n.)
A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.
Aseptic (a.)
Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent.
Aseptic (n.)
An aseptic substance.
Asexual (a.)
Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
Asexually (adv.)
In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
Ash (n.)
sing. of Ashes.
Ash (n.)
The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
Ash (n.)
A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash (Fraxinus excelsior) and the white ash (F. Americana).
Ash (v. t.)
To strew or sprinkle with ashes.
The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.
Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.