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To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; to reproach. [Obs.] And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser.

Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report. Milton.

The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object. Glanvill.

Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.

on; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the host. Cowper. No suspicion was aroused. Merivale.

Producing males from unfertilized eggs, as certain wasps and bees.

imitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo

also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

One who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars.

fluences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.

Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To min…

The body of young aspirants for knighthood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal.

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.] "In battailous aspect." Milton.

Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

To catch; to grasp; to insnare. [Obs.] Chaucer.

s, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome. Kind influences and benign aspects. South.

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. "Benignity of aspect." Sir W. Scott.

To asperse with calumny or reproach. Whom never faction could bespatter. Swift.

To spurt on or over; to asperse. [Obs.] Milton.