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One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.

fficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

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

The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation. Milton.

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

The determination of the brightness of stars, and also of the sun, moon, and planets. --As`tro*pho`to*met"ric*al (#), a.

A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege. So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary. Ayliffe.

Incommensurable; also, unsymmetrical. [Obs.] D. H. More.

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

The goddess of mischievous folly; also, in later poets, the goddess of vengeance.

xon prince or nobleman; esp., the heir apparent or a prince of the royal family. [Written also Adeling and Ætheling.]

A building or an apartment where a library, periodicals, and newspapers are kept for use.

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

een Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west; as, the Atlantic Ocean (called also the Atlantic); the Atlantic basin; the Atlantic telegraph.

A large, square folio, resembling a volume of maps; -- called also atlas folio.

The whole mass of aëriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphere of Mars.

Producing only asexual individuals, as the eggs of certain annelids.

Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.

abiliary arteries, capsules, and veins (Anat.), those pertaining to the kidney; -- called also renal arteries, capsules, and veins.