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  • English Word Ashlering Definition The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.
  • English Word Ashore Definition On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.
  • English Word Ashtaroth Definition of Ashtoreth
  • English Word Ashtoreth Definition The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.
  • English Word Ashweed Definition Goutweed.
  • English Word Ashy Definition Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
  • English Word Ashy Definition Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
  • English Word Asian Definition Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic.
  • English Word Asian Definition An Asiatic.
  • English Word Asiarch Definition One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites.
  • English Word Asiatic Definition Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants.
  • English Word Asiatic Definition A native, or one of the people, of Asia.
  • English Word Asiaticism Definition Something peculiar to Asia or the Asiatics.
  • English Word Aside Definition On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.
  • English Word Aside Definition Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts.
  • English Word Aside Definition So as to be heard by others; privately.
  • English Word Aside Definition Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.
  • English Word Asilus Definition A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.
  • English Word Asinego Definition Alt. of Assinego
  • English Word Asinine Definition Of or belonging to, or having the qualities of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy.
  • English Word Asininity Definition The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.
  • English Word Asiphonata Definition Alt. of Asiphonida
  • English Word Asiphonate Definition Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells.
  • English Word Asiphonate Definition An asiphonate mollusk.
  • English Word Asiphonea Definition Alt. of Asiphonida
  • English Word Asiphonida Definition A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.
  • English Word Asitia Definition Want of appetite; loathing of food.
  • English Word Ask Definition To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
  • English Word Ask Definition To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?
  • English Word Ask Definition To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.