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n which each term is greater than the preceding. -- Ascending signs, signs east of the meridian.

cepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator which rises together with a star,…

ween the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

ertain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.

A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.

en, pitch, lime, and gravel, used for forming pavements, and as a water-proof cement for bridges, roofs, etc.; asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt. Shak. Asses' Bridge. Etym: [L. pons asinorum.] The fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, "The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." [Sportive] "A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge." F. Harrison. -- To make an ass of one's self, t…

tack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like. The papal authority . . . assailed. Hallam. They assailed him with keen invective; they assailed him with still keener irony. Macaulay.

The quality of being assimilable. [R.] Coleridge.

hy should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned Coleridge.

To solve; to clear up. [Obs.] Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle. Bp. Jewel.

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

Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

Amazement. Coleridge.

In a straddling position; astride; bestriding; as, to sit astraddle a horse.

eographic projection of the sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere. Whewell.

An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like. [Sp. Amer.]

object of the mechanical atomistic philosophy to confound synthesis with synartesis. Coleridge.

, or fine; to grow less; to lessen. The attention attenuates as its sphere contracts. Coleridge.