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Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood. Nor aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze. Gay.

Pertaining to, of the nature of, or containing, asphalt; bituminous. "Asphaltic pool." "Asphaltic slime." Milton.

Pertaining to asphyxia.

Of or pertaining to breathing; suited to the inhaling of air

Pertaining to, or like, an asp.

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. -- n. sing. & pl.

Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe.

A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. [Obs.] Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so. Shak.

Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.

Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies.

Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea. -- n.

Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.

Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient. -- Asth*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.

Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.

Pertaining to the genus Astræa or the family Astræidæ. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the astragalus.