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A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europæum; -- called also camphor of asarum.

Specifically: The visible ascent of our Savior on the fortieth day after his resurrection. (Acts i. 9.) Also, Ascension Day.

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six…

The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.

The act or process of sterilizing an animal or human being, as by vasectomy.

Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of many bivalve shells. -- n.

A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

Of or pertaining to the patriotic Jewish family to which the Maccabees belonged; Maccabean; as, the Asmonean dynasty. [Written also Asmonæan.]

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

The act of viewing; a look. [Obs.]

The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Bailey.

A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.

The act of causing asphyxia; a state of asphyxia.

The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound. If aspiration be defined to be an impetus of breathing. Wilkins.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

Roasting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A weight of 29.166 + grams used in assaying, for convenience. Since it bears the same relation to the milligram that a ton of 2000 avoirdupois pounds does to the troy ounce, the weight in milligrams of precious metal obtained from an assay ton of ore gives directly the number of ounces to the ton.

Assurance; certainty. [Obs.]

An obtaining or acquiring. [Obs.] Ayliffe.