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Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air. "Serious in aspect." Dryden. [Craggs] with aspect open shall erect his head. Pope.

Facing each other.

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fracture; it melts and burns when heated, leaving no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europ…

Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller.

Incomplete correspondence. Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell.

To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. The consequences of assumed principles. Whewell.

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

is said to be astay, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.

Of a nature to astound; astonishing; amazing; as, an astounding force, statement, or fact. -- As*tound"ing*ly, adv.

A convex molding of rounded surface, generally from half to three quarters of a circle.

An old astronomical instrument, formed of two cones, on whose surface the constellations were delineated.

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

A rich kind of satin manufactured in India. Brande & C.

An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.

The pressure or weight of the air at the sea level, on a unit of surface, or about 14.7 Ibs. to the sq. inch. Hydrogen was liquefied under a pressure of 650 atmospheres. Lubbock.

To make satisfaction for; to expiate. Or each atone his guilty love with life. Pope.

Satisfaction or reparation made by giving an equivalent for an injury, or by doing of suffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man…