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ent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat. Here shall I die ashore. Shak. I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Shak.

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

thing spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.

a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.

Supposed.

The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong. Dryden.

g-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the aërial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire.

Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

Building up; constructive; -- opposed to destructive. [Obs.]

Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; --opposed to synchronous.

A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton.

h century. Athanasian creed, a formulary, confession, or exposition of faith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; but this opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by some to Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a summary of what was called the orthodox faith.…

Opposed to theology; atheistic. Bp. Montagu.

Not transmitting heat; -- opposed to diathermanous.

istance. -- Athwart ships, across the ship from side to side, or in that direction; -- opposed to fore and aft.

A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.