Rough; rugged. [Little used.]
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1. In grammar, the Greek accent, importing that the letter over which it is placed ought to be aspirated, or pronounced as if the letter h preceded it.
2. A Turkish coin, of which three make a medine. Its value is about a cent and 12 decimals.
1. The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h/s, "rh`twr, pronounced hra"t/r.
2. A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.
Asper
Encyclopedia Britannica
ASPER, Hans, a Swiss painter, was born in 1499 at Zürich, where he died on the 21st March 1571. He wrought in a great variety of styles, but excelled chiefly in flower and fruit pieces, and in portrait painting. Many of his pictures have perished, but his style may be judged from the illustrations to Gessner’s Historia Animalium, for which he is said to have furnished the designs, and from portraits of Zwingle and his daughter Regula Gwalter, which are preserved in the public library of Zürich. It has been usual to class Asper among the pupils and imitators of Holbein, but an inspection of his works is sufficient to show that this is a mistake. Though Asper was held in high reputation by his fellow-citizens, who elected him a member of the Great Council, and had a medal struck in his honour, he seems to have been frequently in embarrassed circumstances, and there is reason to believe that he died a pauper.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 2, p. 715
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To make rough or uneven.
To make rough or uneven.
of Asperate
A making rough.
The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.
1. The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.
Alt. of Aspergillum
Resembling the aspergillum in form; as, an aspergilliform stigma.
1. The brush used in the Roman Catholic church for sprinkling holy water on the people.
2. See Wateringpot shell.
Having rough leaves. Plants of this kind are, by some authors, classified according to this character. They constitute the forty-first order of Linne's fragments of a natural method. In the methods of Herman, Boerhave, and Ray, this class consists of plants which have four naked seeds. Their leaves stand alternately on the stalks, and the flower is monopetalous in five divisions.
Alt. of Asperifolious
Having leaves rough to the touch. [See the preceding word.]
Having rough leaves.
of Asperity
1. Roughness of surface; unevenness; opposed to smoothness.
2. Roughness of sound; that quality which grates the ear; harshness of pronunciation.
3. Roughness to the taste; sourness.
5. Sharpness.
1. Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.
2. Roughness or harshness of sound; that quality which grates upon the ear; raucity.
4. Moral roughness; roughness of manner; severity; crabbedness; harshness; -- opposed to mildness.
5. Sharpness; disagreeableness; difficulty.
Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.
Rough; uneven.
Rough; uneven.
1. aspers'. [Latin aspergo, aspersus, of ad and spargo, to scatter.]
2. To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation, or good name; to slander or calumniate; as, to asperse a poet of his writings; to asperse a character.
3. To cast upon.
1. To sprinkle, as water or dust, upon anybody or anything, or to besprinkle any one with a liquid or with dust.
2. To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious 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.
1. Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.
ASPERS'ER , n One that asperses, or villifies another.
One who asperses; especially, one who vilifies another.
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