English English Dictionary

In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

Behind a ship; in the rear.

Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.

To escape.

Alt. of Astheny

Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

Weakness of sight.

Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

Alt. of Asthmatical

A person affected with asthma.

Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient.

Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.

A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision.

To assent.