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ports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.

Bespattered; slandered; calumniated. Motley.

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (as absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). Spenser.

Secret slander; detraction. Backbiting, and bearing of false witness. Piers Plowman.

A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.

To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander. Thou dost belie him, Percy, thou dost belie him. Shak.

k by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

o accuse falsely and maliciously of a crime or offense, or of something disreputable; to slander; to libel. Hatred unto the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.

Containing calumny; slanderous. Montagu.

Containing or implying calumny; false, malicious, and injurious to reputation; slanderous; as, calumnious reports. Virtue itself 'scapes not calumnious strokes. Shak.

se, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction. "Infamouse calumnies." Motley. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Shak.

ive punishment; chastisement; reproof; pungent criticism. The keenest castigation of her slanderers. W. Irving.

A large two-handed sword used formerly by the Scottish Highlanders.

r; a suitable share; proportion; esp., a quota of troops. From the Alps to the border of Flanders, contingents were required . . . 200,000 men were in arms. Milman.

A strainer. See Colander.

Act of injuring another's reputation by any slanderous communication, written or oral; the wrong of maliciously injuring the good name of another; slander; detraction; calumny; aspersion.

Containing defamation; injurious to reputation; calumnious; slanderous; as, defamatory words; defamatory writings.