Artiste :: Artiste (n.) One peculiarly dexterous and tasteful in almost any employment, as an opera dancer, a hairdresser, a cook..

Assisted :: Assisted (imp. & p. p.) of Assis.

Assister :: Assister (n.) An assistant; a helper.

Asteism :: Asteism (n.) Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

Astel :: Astel (n.) An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine..

Aster :: Aster (n.) A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

Aster :: Aster (n.) A plant of the genus Callistephus. Many varieties (called China asters, German asters, etc.) are cultivated for their handsome compound flowers..

Asterias :: Asterias (n.) A genus of echinoderms.

Asteriated :: Asteriated (a.) Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire..

Asteridea :: Asteridea (n. pl.) A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal.

Asteridian :: Asteridian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea.

Asteridian :: Asteridian (n.) A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.

Asterioidea :: Asterioidea (n. pl.) Alt. of Asteride.

Asterion :: Asterion (n.) The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures..

Asteriscus :: Asteriscus (n.) The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.

Asterisk :: Asterisk (n.) The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character..

Asterism :: Asterism (n.) A constellation.

Asterism :: Asterism (n.) A small cluster of stars.

Asterism :: Asterism (n.) An asterisk, or mark of reference..

Asterism :: Asterism (n.) Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage..

Asterism :: Asterism (n.) An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica..

Astern :: Astern (adv.) In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern..

Astern :: Astern (adv.) Behind a ship; in the rear.

Asternal :: Asternal (a.) Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

Asteroid :: Asteroid (n.) A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

Asteroidal :: Asteroidal (a.) Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids..

Asterolepis :: Asterolepis (n.) A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone..

Asterophyllite :: Asterophyllite (n.) A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites..

Astert :: Astert (v. t.) To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.

Astert :: Astert (v. i.) To escape.

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