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quared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.

e, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.

. assertory, not probatory. Jer. Taylor. An assertory, not a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.

limit. [R.] The mind is astricted to certain necessary modes or forms of thought. Sir W. Hamilton.

Theology founded on observation or knowledge of the celestial bodies. Derham.

merly used by alchemists. It was so constructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat. Chambers.

equiring great physical agility and strength; one who has great activity and strength; a champion.

To reduce to atoms. [Obs.] Feltham.

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.

reat interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. Brougham.

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.

Attic. [Obs.] Hammond.

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle. Derham.

ition. All bodies and all parts of bodies mutually attract themselves and one another. Derham.

Grief for sin arising only from fear of punishment or feelings of shame. See Contrition. Wallis.

Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. [R.] With auctionary hammer in thy hand. Dryden.

A priming tube connecting the charge chamber with the gallery, or place where the slow match is applied. Knight.

The chamber, or one of the two chambers, of the heart, by which the blood is received and transmitted to the ventricle or ventricles; -- so called from its resemblance to the auricle or external ear of some quadrupeds. See Heart.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Hammond.