English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Asperifoliate
(a.)
Alt. of Asperifolious
Asperifolious
(a.)
Having rough leaves.
Asperities
(pl. )
of Asperity
Asperity
(n.)
Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity;
crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
Asperity
(n.)
Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
Asperity
(n.)
Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
Asperity
(n.)
Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which
grates upon the ear; raucity.
Asperity
(n.)
Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to
smoothness.
Aspermatous
(a.)
Aspermous.
Aspermous
(a.)
Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.
Asperne
(v. t.)
To spurn; to despise.
Asperous
(a.)
Rough; uneven.
Asperse
(v. t.)
To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or
anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
Asperse
(v. t.)
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.
Aspersed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Asperse
Aspersed
(a.)
Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or
strewed over the surface.
Aspersed
(a.)
Bespattered; slandered; calumniated.
Asperser
(n.)
One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.
Aspersing
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Asperse
Aspersion
(n.)
A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.