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h; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden. His spiritual attendants adjured him, as he loved his soul, to emancipate his brethren. Macaulay.

An ancient name of a gum.

The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant (Ferula asafoetida) of Persia and the East India. It is used in medicine as an antispasmodic. [Written also assafoetida.]

A genus of trilobites found in the Lower Silurian formation. See Illust. in Append.

An acrid herbaceous plant (Asarum Europæum), the leaves and roots of which are emetic and cathartic. It is principally used in cephalic snuffs.

A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europæum; -- called also camphor of asarum.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling asbestus; inconsumable; asbestine.

Having the form or structure of asbestus.

Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.

Asbestic.

ariety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.

A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.

ove upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17.

Capable of being ascended.

Same as Ascendency.

Ascent; height; elevation. [R.] Sciences that were then in their highest ascendant. Temple.

Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne.

Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts.