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Ingeniously; skillfully. [Obs.] The spider's web, finely and artificially wrought. Tillotson.

Ladle-shaped; -- applied to two small cartilages of the larynx, and also to the glands, muscles, etc., connected with them. The cartilages are attached to the cricoid cartilage and connected with the vocal cords.

ally with, no less than. "I have understanding as well as you." Job xii. 3. -- As yet, until now; up to or at the present time; still; now.

An ascending or arising, as in distillation; also that which arises, as from distillation. Vaporous ascensions from the stomach. Sir T. Browne. Ascension Day, the Thursday but one before Whitsuntide, the day on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday.…

A European species of lavender (Lavandula spica), which produces a volatile oil. See Spike.

To rise; to ascend; to tower; to soar. My own breath still foments the fire, Which flames as high as fancy can aspire. Waller.

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

To assassinate. [Obs.] Stillingfleet.

imals. Not conversing the body, not repairing it by assimilation, but preserving it by ventilation. Sir T. Browne.

To set free; to release. [Archaic] Till from her hands the spright assoiled is. Spenser.

Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller.

A thick liquid residuum obtained in the distillation of Russian petroleum, much used as fuel.

The skin of stillborn or young lambs of that region, the curled wool of which resembles fur.

nfinitely 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.

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

set, at one, i. e., to be or bring in or to a state of agreement or reconciliation. If gentil men, or othere of hir contree Were wrothe, she wolde bringen hem atoon. Chaucer.

Want of tone; weakness of the system, or of any organ, especially of such as are contractile.

ompass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson.

A fragrant essential oil; esp., a volatile and highly fragrant essential oil obtained from the petals of roses. [Also written otto and ottar.]