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Arrogance. [R.]

Ascent; height; elevation. [R.] Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. Temple.

ising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne.

See Acescency, Acescent. [Obs.]

A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.

Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

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

Not sounding or sounded. [R.] C. C. Felton.

Facing each other.

quence of the resignations . . . the way to greatness was left clear to a new set of aspirants. Macaulay.

One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer. An assailant of the church. Macaulay.

nding aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

In a manner to give aid. [R.]

Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

Assonant.

Of or pertaining to divination by means of the stars; astrologic. [R.] Dr. H. More.

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

Anterior; cephalic. Barclay.

Of or pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients allege was sunk, and overwhelmed by the ocean.

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