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Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

A line which approaches nearer to some curve than assignable distance, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. Asymptotes may be straight lines or curves. A rectilinear asymptote may be conceived as a tangent to the curve at an infinite distance.

Disconnected; not fitted or adjusted. -- A*syn"ar*tet"ic, a. Asynartete verse (Pros.), a verse of two members, having different rhythms; as when the first consists of iambuses and the second of trochees.

Not simultaneous; not concurrent in time; --opposed to synchronous.

Characterized by the use of asyndeton; not connected by conjunctions. -- As`yn*det"ic*al*ly, adv.

A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton.

A weakening or cessation of the contractile power of the heart.

The state or symptoms characteristic of asystole.

To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye. [Archaic] Bacon. Saying so, he abased his lance. Shelton.

Borne lower than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

Abjectly; downcastly.

The act of abasing, humbling, or bringing low; the state of being abased or humbled; humiliation.

He who, or that which, abases.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

In an abashed manner.

The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents.

Non-germinal.

The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.