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articular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.

To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

Pronounced with the h sound or with audible breath. But yet they are not aspirate, i. e., with such an aspiration as h. Holder.

ing; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

w the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

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

A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

ld feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

keness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

To remove; to put off. [Obs.] She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser.

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.

Having a resemblance of sounds.

To correspond in sound.

ming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation. [Obs.] Custom and studies efform the soul like wax, and by assuefaction introduce a nature. Jer. Taylor.

ion; unwarrantable claim. This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of death to the resurrection of the body. Thodey. That calm assumption of the virtues. W. Black.

pasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.