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Furnished with tendrils.

Having nine seeds; -- said of fruits.

Exasperated; imbittered. [Obs.] Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning.

One who exasperates or inflames anger, enmity, or violence.

The act of exasperating or the state of being exasperated; irritation; keen or bitter anger. Extorted from him by the exasperation of his spirits. South.

The alewife. [Local, Canada]

One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.

Having seven seeds.

nuff boxes, etc. When the colors are in stripes or bands, it is called striped or banded jasper. The Egyptian pebble is a brownish yellow jasper. Jasper opal, a yellow variety of opal resembling jasper. -- Jasper ware, a delicate kind of earthenware invented by Josiah Wedgwood. It is usually white, but is capable of r…

mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.

To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.

Containing five seeds.

One who, or which, rasps; a scraper.

Having four seeds. Tetraspermous plant, a plant which produces four seeds in each flower.

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).

Exasperating; provoking; irritating. [Colloq.] A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.

To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.] And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser.

A mark of aspiration used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. Bentley.