English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Astern
(adv.)
In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder
part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
Astern
(adv.)
Behind a ship; in the rear.
Asternal
(a.)
Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the
sternum.
Asteroid
(n.)
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.
Asteroidal
(a.)
Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
Asterolepis
(n.)
A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or
twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.
Asterophyllite
(n.)
A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe
and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.
Astert
(v. t.)
To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
Astert
(v. i.)
To escape.
Asthenia
(n.)
Alt. of Astheny
Asthenic
(a.)
Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak;
debilitating.
Asthenopia
(n.)
Weakness of sight.
Astheny
(n.)
Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the
vital forces.
Asthma
(n.)
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.
Asthmatic
(a.)
Alt. of Asthmatical
Asthmatic
(n.)
A person affected with asthma.
Asthmatical
(a.)
Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough;
liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient.
Astigmatic
(a.)
Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as,
astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.
Astigmatism
(n.)
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.
Astipulate
(v. i.)
To assent.