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Asarone
- - A crystallized substance, resembling camphor, obtained from the Asarum Europ; -- called also camphor of asarum.
Asbolin
- - A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.
Ascarid
- - A parasitic nematoid worm, especially the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.
Ascaris
- noun - type genus of the family Ascaridae: roundworms with a three-lipped mouth
Ascends
- verb - appear to be moving upward, as by means of tendrils; "the vine climbed up the side of the house"
- become king or queen; "She ascended to the throne after the King's death"
- come up, of celestial bodies; "The sun also rises"; "The sun uprising sees the dusk night fled..."; "Jupiter ascends"
- go along towards (a river's) source; "The boat ascended the Delaware"
- go back in order of genealogical succession; "Inheritance may not ascend linearly"
- move to a better position in life or to a better job; "She ascended from a life of poverty to one of great
- slope upwards; "The path ascended to the top of the hill"
- to climb
- travel up, "We ascended the mountain"; "go up a ladder"; "The mountaineers slowly ascended the steep slope"
Ascents
- noun - a movement upward; "they cheered the rise of the hot-air balloon"
- an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise"
- the act of changing location in an upward direction
Asceses
- noun - rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
Ascesis
- noun - rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
Ascetic
- adjective - pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices"
- practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
- someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
Ascians
- - Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun.