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Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray.

A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc. Thackeray.

ed of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.

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

erate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.

e of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverations upon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.

rising obliquely; curving upward. Gray.

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is starshaped or pentagonal.

A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistictness of vision.

Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.

arlike. Shines only with an astral luster. I. Taylor. Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. Dryden. Astral lamp, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. -- Astral spirits, spirits formerly supposed to live in the hea…

The reduction of fluids into fine spray.

To reduce to atoms, or to fine spray. The liquids in the form of spray are said to be pulverized, nebulized, or atomized. Dunglison.

One who, or that which, atomizes; esp., an instrument for reducing a liquid to spray for disinfecting, cooling, or perfuming.

bscure; to sully; to disgrace; to cloud with infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.

It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless king. Thackeray.

The persons attending; a retinue; attendants. If your stray attendance by yet lodged. Milton.

Attentive; heedful. [Archaic] Let thine ears be attent unto the prayer. 2 Chron. vi. 40.

To fill up with alluvial earth. [Obs.] Ray.