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Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.

ough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

l. 2 Kings iv. 4. But soft! but soft! aside: here comes the king. Shak. The flames were blown aside. Dryden.

To turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.

Prospect; outlook. [Obs.] This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended. Evelyn.

Capable of being; visible. "The aspectable world." Ray. "Aspectable stars." Mrs. Browning.

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or 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 als…

ion; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

ish; high desire. "Aspirations after virtue." Johnson. Vague aspiration after military renown. Prescott.

eat; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope.

produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

Roasting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

sh or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town. The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.

ale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

ng the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne.

To receive or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.

An obligation to have the grain growing on certain lands ground at a certain mill, the owner paying a toll. Bell.