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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.

Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface. Cussans.

One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.

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

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

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

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

o the truth did always falsely report and calumniate all godly men's doings. Strype. Syn. asperse; slander; defame; vilify; traduce; belie; bespatter; blacken; libel. See Asperse.

ially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.

To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse. To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. South.

To treat opprobriously; to defame; to asperse; to traduce; to slander. [R.] I do faws on men and hug them hard And after scandal them. Shak.

To cast reflections on; to asperse. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Crose.

To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation; to asperse. My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain. Sir P. Sidney. If ever I shall close these eyes but once, May I live spotted for my perjury. Beau. & Fl. To spot timber, to cut or chip it, in preparation for hewing.