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tition; to solicit; - - often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed. Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. Judg. xviii. 5. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. John xv. 7.

turn aside. [Poet.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

liquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer. Shak.

Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.

An antimask. B. Jonson.

A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. [Written also anue.] Bacon.

To take to task; to blame. Shak.

To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat. Basks in the glare, and stems the tepid wave. Goldsmith.

ers or other twigs, cane, rushes, splints, or other flexible material, interwoven. "Rude baskets . . . woven of the flexile willow." Dyer.

ers contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.

As much as a basket will contain.

The art of making baskets; also, baskets, taken collectively.

One of the largest species of sharks (Cetorhinus maximus), so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.

To mask; to conceal.

A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.

The stomach. [Humorous] S. Foote.

A basket in which clothes are carried to the wash. Shak.

The quantity contained in a cask.