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- English Word Asarone Definition A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europaeum; -- called also camphor of asarum.
- English Word Asbestic Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.
- English Word Asbestiform Definition Having the form or structure of asbestus.
- English Word Asbestine Definition Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.
- English Word Asbestos Definition A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.
- English Word Asbestous Definition Asbestic.
- English Word Asbestus Definition Alt. of Asbestos
- English Word Asbolin Definition A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.
- English Word Ascarid Definition A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.
- English Word Ascarides Definition of Ascarid
- English Word Ascend Definition To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend.
- English Word Ascend Definition To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor.
- English Word Ascend Definition To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.
- English Word Ascendable Definition Capable of being ascended.
- English Word Ascendance Definition Same as Ascendency.
- English Word Ascendancy Definition Alt. of Ascendance
- English Word Ascendant Definition Ascent; height; elevation.
- English Word Ascendant Definition The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune.
- English Word Ascendant Definition Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another.
- English Word Ascendant Definition An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant.
- English Word Ascendant Definition Alt. of Ascendent
- English Word Ascended Definition of Ascend
- English Word Ascendency Definition Governing or controlling influence; domination; power.
- English Word Ascendent Definition Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon.
- English Word Ascendent Definition Rising; ascending.
- English Word Ascendent Definition Superior; surpassing; ruling.
- English Word Ascendible Definition Capable of being ascended; climbable.
- English Word Ascending Definition of Ascend
- English Word Ascending Definition Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite.
- English Word Ascension Definition The act of ascending; a rising; ascent.