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n burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

es of, the ass, as stupidity and obstinacy. "Asinine nature." B. Jonson. "Asinine feast." Milton.

ormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.

meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth. Milton.

f the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous. "Asphaltic pool." "Asphaltic slime." Milton.

Assailing; attacking. Milton.

ur fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

Murderous. Milton.

wful or insulting physical violence or menaces. Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound. Milton.

al persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. Milton.

to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2.

Archaic] That . . . I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. I will assert it from the scandal. Jer. Taylor.

. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.

er; an associate in office. Whence to his Son, The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor.

tion; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor. To weary him with my assiduous cries. Milton.

help. With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end. Milton.

ility or authority; as, an associate judge. While I descend . . . to my associate powers. Milton.

bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton.

se degree of surprise; amazement. Lest the place And my quaint habits breed astonishment. Milton.

r, surprise, or fear. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. Milton.