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To desire with eagerness; to seek to attain something high or great; to pant; to long; -- followed by to or after, and rarely by at; as, to aspire to a crown; to aspire after immorality. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; Aspiring to be angels, men rebel. Pope.

e eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.

Chaucer. I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. Milton.

See Asseverate. [Archaic]

ome business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

See Asinego.

See Assythment. [Obs.]

Incomplete correspondence. Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell.

n; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton.

See Assuage.

e crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

Stunned; astonished. See Astony. [Archaic] And I astonied fell and could not pray. Mrs. Browning.

See Astrakhan.

See Astragal, 1.

To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill.

the methods or principles of astronomy. -- As`tro*nom"ic*al*ly, adv. Astronomical clock. See under Clock. -- Astronomical day. See under Day. -- Astronomical fractions, Astronomical numbers. See under Sexagesimal.

A treatise on, or text-book of, the science. Physical astronomy. See under Physical.

See Astrofel. [Obs.]

ink, mock, laugh at any one. At all, At home, At large, At last, At length, At once, etc. See under All, Home, Large, Last (phrase and syn.), Length, Once, etc. -- At it, busily or actively engaged. -- At least. See Least and However. -- At one. See At one, in the Vocabulary.

See Yataghan.