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A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman.

Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful. Artless of stars and of the moving sand. Dryden.

A man skilled in an art or in arts. [Obs.] Bacon.

Of or pertaining to the people called Aryans; Indo-European; Indo-Germanic; as, the Aryan stock, the Aryan languages.

While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke. As I return I will fetch off these justices. Shak.

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

f the moon or a planet wherein it passes the ecliptic to proceed northward. It is also called the northern node. Herschel. -- Ascending series. (Math.) (a) A series arranged according to the ascending powers of a quantity. (b) A series in which each term is greater than the preceding. -- Ascending signs, signs east o…

ay on which commemorated our Savior's ascension into heaven after his resurrection; -- called also Holy Thursday. -- Right ascension (Astron.), that degree of the equinoctial, counted from the beginning of Aries, which rises with a star, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted…

mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.

Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.

in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.

t is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the Populus tremula, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.

ng no residue. It occurs on the surface and shores of the Dead Sea, which is therefore called Asphaltites, or the Asphaltic Lake. It is found also in many parts of Asia, Europe, and America. See Bitumen.

A savory meat jelly containing portions of fowl, game, fish, hard boiled eggs, etc. Thackeray.

ne with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like. The papal authority . . . assailed. Hallam. They assailed him with keen invective; they assailed him with still keener irony. Macaulay.

Capable of being assailed.

k with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces. Insnared, assaulted, overcome, led bound. Milton.

one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2.