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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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170 words match “ASCI”

A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.

FASCICULARLY adv.

In a fascicled manner. Kirwan.

FASCICULATE; FASCICULATED a.

Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

FASCICULUS n. 2 definitions

A little bundle; a fascicle.

FASCINATE v. 2 definitions

to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. Griffith (Cuvier).

FASCINATION n. 3 definitions

The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.…

A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Obs.] "Fascinous diseases." Harvey.

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

INTERFASCICULAR a.

Between fascicles or bundles; as, the interfascicular spaces of connective tissue.

IRASCIBILITY n.

The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness.

Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood. -- I*ras"ci*ble*ness, n. -- I*ras"ci*bly, adv.

Loose; lascivious. [Obs.] "To depaint lascious wantonness." Holland.

Lasciviousness; wantonness. [Obs.]

Lascivious. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

LASCIVIOUS a. 2 definitions

Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires. Milton.