Word Meanings - ASPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.

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• ROUGHING-IN
  The first coat of plaster laid on brick; also, the process of applying it.
• ROUGHEN
  To grow or become rough.
• ROUGHT
  imp. of Reach.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• ROUGHHEWN
  1. Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished. 2. Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained. "A roughhewn seaman." Bacon.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• BITTERWEED
  A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• ROUGHLEG
  Any one of several species of large hawks of the genus Archibuteo, having the legs feathered to the toes. Called also rough- legged hawk, and rough-legged buzzard. Note: The best known species is Archibuteo lagopus of Northern Europe,
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• BITTERSWEET
  1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
• ROUGHINGS
  Rowen.
• ASPERGES
  The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water. The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• BITTERS
  A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
• ROUGHSHOD
  Shod with shoes armed with points or calks; as, a roughshod horse. To ride roughshod, to pursue a course regardless of the pain or distress it may cause others.
• STERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
• ROUGHCAST
  1. A rude model; the rudimentary, unfinished form of a thing. 2. A kind of plastering made of lime, with a mixture of shells or pebbles, used for covering buildings. Shak.
• ASPERSORIUM
  1. The stoup, basin, or other vessel for holy water in Roman Catholic churches. 2. A brush for sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.
• ASPERMOUS
  Destitute of seeds; aspermatous.
• ASPER
  Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. "An asper sound." Bacon.
• DRUGGET
  perh, the same word as drogue drug, but cf. also W. drwg evil, bad, A coarse woolen cloth dyed of one color or printed on one side; generally used as a covering for carpets. By extension, any material used for the same purpose.
• DRUGGER
  A druggist. Burton.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• JASPERATED
  mixed with jasper; containing particles of jasper; as, jasperated agate.
• PROSTERNATION
  Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• IMBITTER
  To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.