English English Dictionary
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Alt. of Asperifolious
Having rough leaves.
of Asperity
Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
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.
To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character.
of Asperse
Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.
Bespattered; slandered; calumniated.
One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.
of Asperse
A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.