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108 words match “ASPER”

ASPER a. 3 definitions
Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.
ASPERATE v.
To make rough or uneven. The asperated part of its surface. Boyle.
ASPERATION n.
The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough. Bailey.
ASPERGES n. 2 definitions
The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.
ASPERGILL; ASPERGILLUM n. 2 definitions
used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people. [Also written aspergillus.]
ASPERGILLIFORM a.
Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma. Gray.
ASPERIFOLIATE; ASPERIFOLIOUS a.
Having rough leaves.
ASPERITY n. 5 definitions
Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness. "The asperities of dry bodies." Boyle.
ASPERMATOUS a.
Aspermous.
ASPERMOUS a.
Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.
ASPERNE v.
To spurn; to despise. [Obs.] Sir T. More.
ASPEROUS a.
Rough; uneven. Boyle.
ASPERSE v. 2 definitions
charges; to tarnish in point of reputation or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet or his writings; to asperse a man's character. With blackest crimes aspersed. Cowper.
ASPERSED a. 2 definitions
Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.
ASPERSER n.
One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.
ASPERSION n. 2 definitions
A sprinkling, as with water or dust, in a literal sense. Behold an immersion, not and aspersion. Jer. Taylor.
ASPERSIVE a.
Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.
ASPERSOIR n.
An aspergill.
ASPERSORIUM n. 2 definitions
A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.
CLASPER n. 3 definitions
One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.
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