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See Intercolumniation.

A widely used system of electric night signals in which a series of double electric lamps (white and red) is arranged vertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.

See Intercolumniation, and Aræosystyle.

A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size. Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the petty traffickers. Shak.

Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.

The science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient Assyria.

Indemnification for injury; satisfaction. [Chiefly in Scots law]

The science or knowledge of the stars, esp. the fixed stars. Bouvier.

y taken without sacrilege. So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary. Ayliffe.

Incommensurable; also, unsymmetrical. [Obs.] D. H. More.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley.

Asymmetrical. [Obs.] Barrow.

Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

me curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.

Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted. -- A*syn"ar*tet"ic, a. Asynartete verse (Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.

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

Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions. -- As`yn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

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