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To unloose the hasp of; to unclose.

To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes. [R.] Stanyhurst.

ted, used on toe or quarter cracks to bind the edges together and prevent motion. It is clasped into two notches, one on each side of the crack, burned into the wall with a cautery iron.

esp. any of the numerous species of the genus Vespa, which includes the true, or social, wasps, some of which are called yellow jackets.

Resembling a wasp in form; having a slender waist, like a wasp.

elongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.

e of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

To aim at; to aspire; to covet. [Obs.] This proud man affects imperial Dryden.

Asphodel. [Obs.]

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate. [Colloq.] If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine. Richardson (Clarissa).

Exasperating; provoking; irritating. [Colloq.] A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow.

mmon involucre, as in the daisy; or of several carpels formed from one flower, as in the raspberry.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

A hook or clasp. The feather of an ostrich, fastened in her turban by an agraffe set with brilliants. Sir W. Scott.

A bituminous mineral resembling asphaltum, found in the county of A.

Asparagine.

Springing from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style. A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.

Clasping or embracing a stem, as the base of some leaves. Gray.