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The process of converting venous blood into arterial blood during its passage through the lungs, oxygen being absorbed and carbonic acid evolved; -- called also aëration and hematosis.

Artistic pursuits; artistic ability. The Academy.

Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.

ascensions from the stomach. Sir T. Browne. Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries,…

ce between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. Robertson.

ng to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.

To refer something to its cause or source; as, to attribute a backward spring to icebergs off the coast. Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impu…

Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants. -- n.

mind; look; view. "The aspect of affairs." Macaulay. The true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish. T. Burnet.

poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.

A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.

A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property.

One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; 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.

Measure; dimension; size. [In this sense now corrupted into size.] An hundred cubits high by just assize. Spenser. [Formerly written, as in French, assise.]

with another; an concomitant. The one [idea] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it. Locke.

subside. [Archaic] "The waters assuaged." Gen. vii. 1. The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. De Foe.