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Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty. The acclivities and asperities of duty. Barrow.

Asymmetrical. [Obs.] Barrow.

Incommensurability. [Obs.] Barrow.

as, atheistic doctrines, opinions, or books. Atheistical explications of natural effects. Barrow.

Attentively. [Obs.] Barrow.

The quality of being authentic; authenticity. [R.] Barrow.

, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow.

to another tribunal. [Obs. or Archaic] One who avocateth his mind from other occupations. Barrow. He, at last, . . . avocated the cause to Rome. Robertson.

To practice deceit. [Obs.] Barrow.

in, uprightness, steadiness, and security. It [piety] is the right ballast of prosperity. Barrow. Ballast engine, a steam engine used in excavating and for digging and raising stones and gravel for ballast. -- Ship in ballast, a ship carring only ballast.

o. That bastard self-love which is so vicious in itself, and productive of so many vices. Barrow.

blessed, or as conferring happiness. The common conceits and phrases that beatify wealth. Barrow.

o besmear or soil with anything thick and dirty. Bedaub foul designs with a fair varnish. Barrow.

ntly; to work carefully upon. "If the earth is belabored with culture, it yieldeth corn." Barrow.

and curse their king and their God. Is. viii. 21. Many far worse bestead than ourselves. Barrow.

earn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow.

ree than; above, as in dignity, excellence, or quality of any kind. "Beyond expectation." Barrow. Beyond any of the great men of my country. Sir P. Sidney. Beyond sea. (Law) See under Sea. -- To go beyond, to exceed in ingenuity, in research, or in anything else; hence, in a bed sense, to deceive or circumvent. That n…

ontend in petulant altercation; to wrangle. Petty things about which men cark and bicker. Barrow.

A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.

e at every unusual appearance. Glanvill. Boggling at nothing which serveth their purpose. Barrow.