APage 503
- English Word Asteroidal Definition Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
- English Word Asterolepis Definition A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.
- English Word Asterophyllite Definition A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.
- English Word Astert Definition To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
- English Word Astert Definition To escape.
- English Word Asthenia Definition Alt. of Astheny
- English Word Asthenic Definition Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.
- English Word Asthenopia Definition Weakness of sight.
- English Word Astheny Definition Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.
- English Word Asthma Definition A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.
- English Word Asthmatic Definition Alt. of Asthmatical
- English Word Asthmatic Definition A person affected with asthma.
- English Word Asthmatical Definition Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient.
- English Word Astigmatic Definition Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.
- English Word Astigmatism Definition A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision.
- English Word Astipulate Definition To assent.
- English Word Astipulation Definition Stipulation; agreement.
- English Word Astir Definition Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
- English Word Astomatous Definition Alt. of Astomous
- English Word Astomous Definition Not possessing a mouth.