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The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.

Capable of being; visible. "The aspectable world." Ray. "Aspectable stars." Mrs. Browning.

Facing each other.

Having an aspect. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

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

Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood. Nor aspen leaves confess the gentlest breeze. Gay.

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.

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

To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.

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

The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]

Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray.

Having rough leaves.

Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.

Aspermous.

Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.

To spurn; to despise. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Rough; uneven. Boyle.

To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust. Heywood.