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Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone. Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts. "Lay aside every weight." Heb. xii. 1.

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

tained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

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

The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Bailey.

Having rough leaves.

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

Rough; uneven. Boyle.

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

An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush 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 southwe…

l by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

To connect or place together in thought. He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last an long as our language. Macaulay.

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

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

To remove; to put off. [Obs.] She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser.

ress or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. Wharton.

Act of rising. The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge.