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A mark of aspiration used in Greek; the asper, or rough breathing. Bentley.

An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.

ial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried. [Obs.] Through many hard assays which did betide. Spenser.

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

xpress or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. Wharton.

Act of rising. The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge.

of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistictness of vision.

these nouns have verbs in -ate; as, alliterate -ation, narrate -ation; many are derived through the French; as, alteration, visitation; and many are formed on verbs ending in the Greek formative -ize (Fr. -ise); as, civilization, demoralization.

The act or process of separating mingled gases of unequal diffusibility by transmission through porous substances.

he great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. Brougham.

gs attain. Sir W. Scott. To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber. Cowper. Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this. J. R. Green.

emnation. [Obs.] He lived from all attainder of suspect. Shak. Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.

Thomson. ~= pyrites, iron pyrites (iron disulphide), containing some gold disseminated through it.

Sour and astringent; rough to the state; having acerbity; as, an austere crab apple; austere wine.

en or brecciated structure due to crushing, in contrast to those of brecciated materials brought from a distance.

Passing through all its stages on one host, as certain parasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.

A system of natural drainage developed by the constituent streams through headwater erosion.

ard; the first point of Libra. -- ~= signs, the signs Libra, Scorpio, and Sagittarius, through which the sun passes between the ~ equinox and winter solstice.

A variety of translucent quartz, spangled throughout with scales of yellow mica. ~= feldspar, a variety of oligoclase with internal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.