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operties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer.

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

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

To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

To try; to attempt; to apply. [Obs. or Archaic] To-night let us assay our plot. Shak. Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed. Milton.

To maintain; to defend. [Obs. or Archaic] That . . . I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. I will assert it from the scandal. Jer. Taylor.

See Asseverate. [Archaic]

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

To abate or subside. [Archaic] "The waters assuaged." Gen. vii. 1. The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. De Foe.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.

An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

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

Dismay; consternation. [Archaic] Spenser.

To stun; to bewilder; to astonish; to dismay. [Archaic] The captain of the Helots . . . strake Palladius upon the side of his head, that he reeled astonied. Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

Stunned; astounded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. [Archaic] Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to Atella, in ancient Italy; as, Atellan plays; farcical; ribald. -- n.

Anterior; cephalic. Barclay.

sembling, Atlas; strong. With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies. Milton.