ASPER

a. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

2.
n.

The rough breathing; a mark placed over an initial vowel sound or over h before it; thus hws, pronounced h, hrj'twr, pronounced hra\'b6t.

3.
n.

A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.


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