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One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer. Shak.

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.

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

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

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

Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping. "Set them not upright, but aslope." Bacon.

Sluggishly. [Obs.] Fotherby.

Smeared over. Dickens.

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

Soaking.

Without a material body; incorporeal. Todd.

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

Same as Aspen. "Trembling poplar or asp." Martyn.

A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

us, crystallizable substance, C4H8N2O3+H2O, found in many plants, and first obtained from asparagus. It is believed to aid in the disposition of nitrogenous matter throughout the plant; -- called also altheine.

Pertaining or allied to, or resembling, asparagus; having shoots which are eaten like asparagus; as, asparaginous vegetables.

much branched stems, and very slender branchlets which are sometimes mistaken for leaves. Asparagus racemosus is a shrubby climbing plant with fragrant flowers. Specifically: The Asparagus officinalis, a species cultivated in gardens.

Pertaining to, or derived, asparagine; as, aspartic acid.

The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance. [R.] "The basilisk killeth by aspect." Bacon. His aspect was bent on the ground. Sir W. Scott.