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Definition of asper

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Asper (n.) 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 hrat/r..

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Exacerbate :: Exacerbate (v. t.) To render more violent or bitter; to irriate; to exasperate; to imbitter, as passions or disease..

Jaspoid :: Jaspoid (a.) Resembling jasper.

Asperating :: Asperating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Asperat.

Asper :: Asper (n.) A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster..

Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One of a pair of organs used by the male for grasping the female among many of the Crustacea.

Roughcast :: Roughcast (v. t.) To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.

Asperation :: Asperation (n.) The act of asperating; a making or becoming rough.

Asperous :: Asperous (a.) Rough; uneven.

Asperity :: Asperity (n.) Roughness of surface; unevenness; -- opposed to smoothness.

Basanite :: Basanite (n.) Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the purity of gold, the amount of alloy being indicated by the color left on the stone when rubbed by the metal..

Porcelanite :: Porcelanite (n.) A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper..

Asperne :: Asperne (v. t.) To spurn; to despise.

Asperse :: Asperse (v. t.) 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..

Aspersed :: Aspersed (a.) Having an indefinite number of small charges scattered or strewed over the surface.

Mollify :: Mollify (v. t.) To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground..

Asperities :: Asperities (pl. ) of Asperit.

Scandal :: Scandal (n.) Reproachful aspersion; opprobrious censure; defamatory talk, uttered heedlessly or maliciously..

Acrimoniousness :: Acrimoniousness (n.) The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony.

Aspergill :: Aspergill (n.) Alt. of Aspergillu.

Squinch :: Squinancy (n.) A European perennial herb (Asperula cynanchica) with narrowly linear whorled leaves; -- formerly thought to cure the quinsy. Also called quincewort.