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- English Word Asperges Definition The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.
- English Word Asperges Definition The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.
- English Word Aspergill Definition Alt. of Aspergillum
- English Word Aspergilliform Definition Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma.
- English Word Aspergillum Definition The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.
- English Word Aspergillum Definition See Wateringpot shell.
- English Word Asperifoliate Definition Alt. of Asperifolious
- English Word Asperifolious Definition Having rough leaves.
- English Word Asperities Definition of Asperity
- English Word Asperity Definition Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.
- English Word Asperity Definition Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
- English Word Asperity Definition Roughness to the taste; sourness; tartness.
- English Word Asperity Definition Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
- English Word Asperity Definition Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
- English Word Aspermatous Definition Aspermous.
- English Word Aspermous Definition Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.
- English Word Asperne Definition To spurn; to despise.
- English Word Asperous Definition Rough; uneven.
- English Word Asperse Definition To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
- English Word Asperse Definition 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.
- English Word Aspersed Definition of Asperse
- English Word Aspersed Definition Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.
- English Word Aspersed Definition Bespattered; slandered; calumniated.
- English Word Asperser Definition One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.
- English Word Aspersing Definition of Asperse
- English Word Aspersion Definition A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense.
- English Word Aspersion Definition The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny.
- English Word Aspersive Definition Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous.
- English Word Aspersoir Definition An aspergill.
- English Word Aspersoria Definition of Aspersorium