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

way; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

To solve; to clear up. [Obs.] Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle. Bp. Jewel.

to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. The consequences of assumed principles. Whewell.

g to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

he sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere. Whewell.

s egg and bread crumbs) used for covering bits of meat, small birds, or fish, strung on skewers for frying.

Of or pertaining to atmology. "Atmological laws of heat." Whewell.

That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor. Whewell.

dit no more than the revenues of a little cloud. Jer. Taylor. Audit ale, a kind of ale, brewed at the English universities, orig. for the day of audit. -- Audit house, Audit room, an appendage to a cathedral, for the transaction of its business.

erly the supreme court of the emperor. It ceased at the death of each emperor, and was renewed by his successor. It became extinct when the German empire was dissolved, in 1806. The term is now applied to a council of the war department of the Austrian empire, and the members of different provincial chanceries of that…

elor of arts. Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.

A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc. Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper. -- Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment…

in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.

A protecting ruffle or frill, as of silk or lace, sewed close to the lower edge of a skirt on the inside.

The science or art of hurling missile weapons by the use of an engine. Whewell.

loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly. Shak.

Moist with dew; dewy. [Obs.] Night with her bedewy wings. A. Brewer.

post or pin on each side of the bed to keep the clothes from falling off. See Bedstaff. Brewer.