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Ascertained (imp. & p. p.) of Ascertain.
Ascertaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ascertain.
Ascertain (v. t.) 查明，確定，弄清 [+（that）] [+wh-] To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. -- Jer. Taylor.
Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. -- Robertson.
Ascertain (v. t.) To make (a thing) certain to the mind; to free from obscurity, doubt, or change; to make sure of; to fix; to determine. [Archaic]
The divine law . . . ascertaineth the truth. -- Hooker.
The very deferring [of his execution] shall increase and ascertain the condemnation. -- Jer. Taylor.
The ministry, in order to ascertain a majority . . . persuaded the queen to create twelve new peers. -- Smollett.
The mildness and precision of their laws ascertained the rule and measure of taxation. -- Gibbon.
Ascertain (v. t.) To find out or learn for a certainty, by trial, examination, or experiment; to get to know; as, to ascertain the weight of a commodity, or the purity of a metal.
He was there only for the purpose of ascertaining whether a descent on England was practicable. -- Macaulay.
Ascertain (v.) Establish after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn: {determine}, {find}, {find out}, {ascertain}].
Ascertain (v.) Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something; "He verified that the valves were closed"; "See that the curtains are closed"; "control the quality of the product" [syn: {see}, {check}, {insure}, {see to it}, {ensure}, {control}, {ascertain}, {assure}].
Ascertain (v.) Find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort; "I want to see whether she speaks French"; "See whether it works"; "find out if he speaks Russian"; "Check whether the train leaves on time" [syn: {determine}, {check}, {find out}, {see}, {ascertain}, {watch}, {learn}].
Ascertain (v.) Learn or discover with certainty.
Ascertain (v. ) To learn or find out (something, such as information or the truth).
Ascertain (v. t.) (Archaic) To make certain, exact, or precise.
Ascertain (v. t.) To find out or learn with certainty. - ascertainable (adj.) - ascertainment (n.)
Ascertain (v. ) To find out with certainty <Police tried to ascertain the cause of the accident.> - ascertained - ascertaining.
Ascertainable (a.) 可查明的，可確定的 That may be ascertained. -- {As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness}, n. -- {As`cer*tain"a*bly}, adv.
Ascertainable (a.) Capable of being ascertained or found out; "ascertainable facts" [syn: {ascertainable}, {discoverable}].
Ascertainer (n.) One who, or that which, ascertains.
Anagrams: Secretarian
Secretarian (a.) Of or relating to secretaries.
Compare: Anagram
Anagram (n.) [ C ] 相同字母異序詞 A word or phrase made by using the letters of another word or phrase in a different order.
// "Neat" is an anagram of "a net".
Compare: Secretary
Secretary (n.) (Obsolete) Someone entrusted with a secret; a confidant.
Compare: Confidant
Confidant (n.) 知己；密友 A person with whom one shares a secret or private matter, trusting them not to repeat it to others.
‘A close confidante of the princess.’
Secretary (n.) [C] 祕書 [（+to）]；（政府機關等的）祕書官，書記官；（協會等的）書記，幹事 A person who keeps records, takes notes and handles general clerical work.
Secretary (n.) (Often capitalized) The head of a department of government.
Secretary (n.) A managerial or leading position in certain non-profit organizations, such as political parties, trade unions, international organizations.
// Ban Ki-Moon was a secretary general of the United Nations.
Secretary (n.) (US) A type of desk, secretary desk; a secretaire.
Secretary (n.) A secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.
Ascertainment (n.) 查明，確定，弄清 [U] The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.
The positive ascertainment of its limits. -- Burke. Ascessancy
Ascessancy (a.) Alt. of Ascessant.
Ascessant (a.) See {Acescency}, {Acescent}. [Obs.]
Compare: Acescency
Acescency (n.) Alt. of Acescence. [See {Acescent}.]
Acescence (n.) 微酸味 The quality of being acescent; the process of acetous fermentation; a moderate degree of sourness. -- Johnson.
Compare: Acescent
Acescent (a.) [See {Acid}.] 容易變酸的 Turning sour; readily becoming tart or acid; slightly sour. -- Faraday.
Acescent (n.) A substance liable to become sour.
Ascetic (a.) 禁慾主義的；苦行的 Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline. -- Sir W. Scott.
Ascetic (n.) 禁慾主義者；苦行者；苦修者 In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
I am far from commending those ascetics that take up their quarters in deserts. -- Norris.
{Ascetic theology}, 【天主教】神修神學 The science which treats of the practice of the theological and moral virtues, and the counsels of perfection. -- Am. Cyc.
{Ascetic theology}, A theological field studying the teachings and the writings of the ascetics of the Church (see also Mysticism).
Compare: Mysticism
Mysticism (n.) [Mass noun] [U] 神祕主義；玄想；通靈；模糊思想；無根據的信念 Belief that union with or absorption into the Deity or the absolute, or the spiritual apprehension of knowledge inaccessible to the intellect, may be attained through contemplation and self-surrender.
‘St Theresa's writings were part of the tradition of Christian mysticism.’
Mysticism (n.) Vague or ill-defined religious or spiritual belief, especially as associated with a belief in the occult.
‘There is a hint of New Age mysticism in the show's title.’
Ascetic (a.) Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; "ascetic practices" [syn: {ascetic}, {ascetical}]
Ascetic (a.) 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" [syn: {ascetic}, {ascetical}, {austere}, {spartan}].
Ascetic (n.) Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline [syn: {abstainer}, {ascetic}].
Asceticism (n.) 禁慾主義；苦行主義；苦行生活 The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.
Asceticism (n.) The doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state.
Asceticism (n.) The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) [syn: {austerity}, {asceticism}, {nonindulgence}].
Asceticism (n.) Rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint [syn: {asceticism}, {ascesis}].
Compare: Sybarite
Sybarite (n.) 愛奢侈享樂的人 A person who is self-indulgent in their fondness for sensuous luxury.
Sybarite (n.) （S-）錫巴里斯的居民 A Sybarite was a native of Sybaris, an ancient Greek city in southern Italy. Sybarites were stereotyped as seekers of pleasure and luxury, and "sybarite" and "sybaritism" now connote such sensualism.
Ascham (n.) A sort of cupboard, or case, to contain bows and other implements of archery.
Asci (n. pl.) See Ascus.
Compare: Ascus
Ascus (n.; pl. Asci) (Bot.) 【植】子囊 A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.
Ascus (n.) Saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes
ASCI, () Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative
ASCI, () Agent to Server Communication Interval (McAfee, ePolicy)
ASCI, () Did you mean ASCII?
Ascian (n.) One of the Ascii.
Compare: Ascii
Ascii, Ascians (n. pl.) [L. ascii, pl. of ascius, Gr. ? without shadow; 'a priv. + ? shadow.] 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.
Ascidian (n.) (Zool.) 海鞘類動物 One of the Ascidioidea, or in a more general sense, one of the Tunicata. Also as an adj. 海鞘類的
Ascidian (n.) Minute sedentary marine invertebrate having a saclike body with siphons through which water enters and leaves.
Ascidiarium (n.) (Zool.) The structure which unites together the ascidiozooids in a compound ascidian.
Ascidiform (a.) (Zool.) Shaped like an ascidian.
Ascidioidea (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike structure within the oral aperture. The integument is usually leathery in texture. See Illustration in Appendix.
Ascidiozooid (n.) (Zool.) One of the individual members of a compound ascidian. See {Ascidioidea}.
Ascidia (n. pl. ) of Ascidium.
Ascidium (n.) (Bot.) 【植】囊狀體 A pitcher-shaped, or flask-shaped, organ or appendage of a plant, as the leaves of the pitcher plant, or the little bladderlike traps of the bladderwort (Utricularia).
Ascidium (n.) pl. (Zool.) A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.
Ascigerous (a.) (Bot.) Having asci. -- Loudon.
Ascii (n. pl.) Alt. of Ascians.
Ascians (n. pl.) 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.
Ascites (n.) (Med.) 【醫】腹水 A collection of serous fluid in the cavity of the abdomen; dropsy of the peritoneum. -- Dunglison.
Ascites (n.) Accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity.
Ascitic (a.) Alt. of Ascitical.
Ascitical (a.) 腹水的 Of, pertaining to, or affected by, ascites; dropsical.
Ascitic (a.) Denoting or relating to an accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity.
Ascititious (a.) 增補的 Supplemental; not inherent or original; adscititious; additional; assumed.
Homer has been reckoned an ascititious name. -- Pope.
Asclepiad (n.) A choriambic verse, first used by the Greek poet Asclepias, consisting of four feet, viz., a spondee, two choriambi, and an iambus.
Asclepiad (n.) Any plant of the family Asclepiadaceae.
Asclepiadaceous (a.) (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.
Asclepiadaceous (a.) Of or relating to plants of the milkweed family.
Asclepias (n.) (Bot.) A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties.
{Asclepias butterfly} (Zool.), A large, handsome, red and black butterfly ({Danais Archippus}), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.
Asclepias (n.) Genus of chiefly North American perennial herbs: silkweed; milkweed [syn: {Asclepias}, {genus Asclepias}].
Ascococci (n. pl. ) Of Ascococcus.
Ascococcus (n.) A form of micrococcus, found in putrid meat infusions, occurring in peculiar masses, each of which is inclosed in a hyaline capsule and contains a large number of spherical micrococci.
Ascospore (n.) 【植】囊孢子 One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of {Ascus}.] Ascosporic.
Compare: Ascosporic
Ascosporic (a.) 囊孢子的 Of or pertaining to an ascospore.
Ascosporic (a.) Of or relating to ascospores [syn: {ascosporic}, {ascosporous}].
Ascospore (n.) Sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus.
Ascribable (a.) 可歸於……的；起因於……的 Capable of being ascribed; attributable.
Ascribable (a.) Capable of being assigned or credited to; "punctuation errors ascribable to careless proofreading"; "the cancellation of the concert was due to the rain"; "the oversight was not imputable to him" [syn: {ascribable}, {due}, {imputable}, {referable}].
Ascribed (imp. & p. p.) of Ascribe.
Ascribing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ascribe.
Ascribe (v. t.) [(+to)] 把……歸因（於）； 把……歸屬（於） To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author.
The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. -- Addison.
Ascribe (v. t.) To attribute, as a quality, or an appurtenance; to consider or allege to belong.
Syn: To {Ascribe}, {Attribute}, {Impute}.
Usage: Attribute denotes, 1. To refer some quality or attribute to a being; as, to attribute power to God. 2. To refer something to its cause or source; as, to attribute a backward spring to icebergs off the coast.
Ascribe is used equally in both these senses, but involves a different image. To impute usually denotes to ascribe something doubtful or wrong, and hence, in general literature, has commonly a bad sense; as, to impute unworthy motives. The theological sense of impute is not here taken into view.
More than good-will to me attribute naught. -- Spenser.
Ascribes his gettings to his parts and merit. -- Pope.
And fairly quit him of the imputed blame. -- Spenser.
Ascribe (v.) Attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: {impute}, {ascribe}, {assign}, {attribute}].
Ascript (a.) See Adscript.
Ascription (n.) 歸於，歸屬；（成敗等的）歸因 The act of ascribing, imputing, or affirming to belong; also, that which is ascribed.
Ascription (n.) Assigning some quality or character to a person or thing; "the attribution of language to birds"; "the ascription to me of honors I had not earned" [syn: {attribution}, {ascription}].
Ascription (n.) Assigning to a cause or source; "the attribution of lighting to an expression of God's wrath"; "he questioned the attribution of the painting to Picasso" [syn: {attribution}, {ascription}].
Ascriptitious (a.) Ascribed.
Ascriptitious (a.) Added; additional. [Obs.]
An ascriptitious and supernumerary God. -- Farindon.
Ascus (n.) 【植】子囊 A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.
Ascus (n.) Saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes.
A-sea (adv.) On the sea; at sea; toward the sea.
Aseptic (a.) 無菌的；防腐性的；防感染的；經過殺菌處理的；冷漠的；超然的 Not liable to putrefaction; nonputrescent.
Aseptic (a.) Free from pathogenic microorganisms; sterile; as, aseptic operating conditions.
Aseptic (a.) [Metaphorical] Lacking emotion, human warmth, or excitement.
Aseptic (n.) 防腐劑 An aseptic substance.
Aseptic (a.) Free of or using methods to keep free of pathological microorganisms; "a sterile operating area"; "aseptic surgical instruments"; "aseptic surgical techniques" [syn: {aseptic}, {sterile}].
Asexual (a.) Having no distinct sex; without sexual action; as, asexual reproduction. See Fission and Gemmation.
Asexually (adv.) In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
Ash (n.) (Bot.) 梣樹（學名：Fraxinus）是木犀科梣屬落葉喬木的通稱，約有60個物種。產於溫帶和亞熱帶地區，在中國有近30種，北方、南方和中部都有種植。 A genus of trees of the Olive family, having opposite pinnate leaves, many of the species furnishing valuable timber, as the European ash ({Fraxinus excelsior}) and the white ash ({Fraxinus Americana}).
{Prickly ash} ({Zanthoxylum Americanum}) and {Poison ash} ({Rhus venenata}) Are shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage.
{Mountain ash}. See {Roman tree}, and under {Mountain}.
Ash (n.) The tough, elastic wood of the ash tree.
Note: Ash is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound term; as, ash bud, ash wood, ash tree, etc.
Ash (n.) sing. of {Ashes}.
Note: Ash is rarely used in the singular except in connection with chemical or geological products; as, soda ash, coal which yields a red ash, etc., or as a qualifying or combining word; as, ash bin, ash heap, ash hole, ash pan, ash pit, ash-grey, ash-colored, pearlash, potash.
{Bone ash}, 骨灰，遺骸 [P] Burnt powered; bone earth.
{Volcanic ash}, 火山灰 See under {Ashes}.
Ash (v. t.) To strew or sprinkle with ashes. -- Howell.
Ash (n.) 灰，灰燼 [U] [P] ；廢墟 [P] The residue that remains when something is burned.
Ash (n.) Any of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus [syn: {ash}, {ash tree}].
Ash (n.) Strong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats.
Ash (v.) Convert into ashes.
Ash (n.) (Heb. o'ren, "tremulous"), mentioned only Isa. 44:14 (R.V., "fir tree"). It is rendered "pine tree" both in the LXX. and Vulgate versions. There is a tree called by the Arabs _aran_, found still in the valleys of Arabia Petraea, whose leaf resembles that of the mountain ash. This may be the tree meant. Our ash tree is not known in Syria.
ASH (Acronyms) Almquist SHell (BSD, Unix, Shell), "ash"
Ashame (v. t.) To shame.
Ashamed (a.) [F] 羞愧的，感到難為情的 [（+of）] [+to-v] [+that]；恥於……的，因難為情而不願……的 [+to-v] Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety. "I am ashamed to beg." --Wyclif.
All that forsake thee shall be ashamed. -- Jer. xvii. 13.
I began to be ashamed of sitting idle. -- Johnson.
Enough to make us ashamed of our species. -- Macaulay.
An ashamed person can hardly endure to meet the gaze of those present. -- Darwin.
Note: Ashamed seldom precedes the noun or pronoun it qualifies. By a Hebraism, it is sometimes used in the Bible to mean disappointed, or defeated.
Ashamed (a.) Feeling shame or guilt or embarrassment or remorse; "are you ashamed for having lied?"; "felt ashamed of my torn coat" [ant: {unashamed}].
Ashamedly (adv.) Bashfully. [R.]
Ashamedly (adv.) With a feeling of shame [ant: {barefacedly}, {shamelessly}, {unashamedly}].
Ashantee (a.) Of or pertaining to Ashantee.
Ashantees (n. pl. ) of Ashantee
Ashantee (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Ashantee in Western Africa.
Ash-colored (a.) Of the color of ashes; a whitish gray or brownish gray.
Ashdod (n.) 阿什杜德 Stronghold, a Philistine city (Josh. 15:47), about midway between Gaza and Joppa, and 3 miles from the Mediterranean. It was one of the chief seats of the worship of Dagon (1 Sam. 5:5). It belonged to the tribe of Judah (Josh. 15:47), but it never came into their actual possession. It was an important city, as it stood on the highroad from Egypt to Palestine, and hence was strongly fortified (2 Chr. 26:6; Isa. 20:1). Uzziah took it, but fifty years after his death it was taken by the Assyrians (B.C. 758). According to Sargon's record, it was captured by him in B.C. 711. The only reference to it in the New Testament, where it is called Azotus, is in the account of Philip's return from Gaza (Acts 8:40). It is now called Eshdud.
Ashdod, () Effusion; inclination; theft.
Ashen (a.) [See {Ash}, the tree.] 由灰燼構成的；像灰的；灰白色的；蒼白的 Of or pertaining to the ash tree. "Ashen poles." -- Dryden.
Ashen (a.) Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray.
The ashen hue of age. -- Sir W. Scott.
Ashen (a.) Of, relating to, or made from ash wood.
Ashen (n.) Obs. pl. for {Ashes}. -- Chaucer.
Ashen (a.) Anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn: {ashen}, {blanched}, {bloodless}, {livid}, {white}].
Ashen (a.) Made of wood of the ash tree.
Ashery (n.) 堆灰場 A depository for ashes.
Ashery (n.) A place where potash is made.
Ashes (n. pl.) The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
Ashes (n. pl.) Specifically: The remains of the human body when burnt, or when "returned to dust" by natural decay.
Their martyred blood and ashes sow. -- Milton.
The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. -- Macaulay.
Ashes (n. pl.) The color of ashes; deathlike paleness.
The lip of ashes, and the cheek of flame. --Byron.
{In dust and ashes}, {In sackcloth and ashes}, With humble expression of grief or repentance; -- from the method of mourning in Eastern lands.
{Volcanic ashes}, or {Volcanic ash}, The loose, earthy matter, or small fragments of stone or lava, ejected by volcanoes.
Ashes (n.) The ashes of a red heifer burned entire (Num. 19:5) when sprinkled on the unclean made them ceremonially clean (Heb. 9:13).
To cover the head with ashes was a token of self-abhorrence and humiliation (2 Sam. 13:19; Esther 4:3; Jer. 6:26, etc.).
To feed on ashes (Isa. 44:20), means to seek that which will prove to be vain and unsatisfactory, and hence it denotes the unsatisfactory nature of idol-worship. (Comp. Hos. 12:1).
Ash-fire (n.) A low fire used in chemical operations.
Ash-furnace (n.) Alt. of Ash-oven.
Ash-oven (n.) A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.
Ashine (a.) Shining; radiant.
Ashlar (n.) 【建】方石，細方石；琢石 Alt. of Ashler.
Ashler (n.) (Masonry) Hewn or squared stone; also, masonry made of squared or hewn stone.
Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. -- Knight.
Ashler (n.) In the United States especially, a thin facing of squared and dressed stone upon a wall of rubble or brick. -- Knight.
Ashlar (n.) A rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes.
Compare: Hewn
Hewn (a.) 砍成的；砍到的 Cut or shaped with hard blows of a heavy cutting instrument like an ax or chisel; "a house built of hewn logs"; "rough-hewn stone"; "a path hewn through the underbrush" [syn: {hewn}, {hand-hewn}].
Ashlaring (n.) Alt. of Ashlering.
Ashlering (n.) The act of bedding ashlar in mortar.
Ashlering (n.) Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall.
Ashlering (n.) (Carp.) The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See {Ashlar}, 2.
Ashore (adv.) On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.
Ashtaroth (n. pl. ) of Ashtoreth.
Ashtoreth (n.) The principal female divinity of the Phoenicians, as Baal was the principal male divinity.
Ashtray (n.) [ C ] 煙灰缸 A small dish or container, sometimes decorative, in which people can leave cigarette ash and cigarette butts.
Ash Wednesday (n.) The first day of Lent; -- so called from a custom in the Roman Catholic church of putting ashes, on that day, upon the foreheads of penitents.
Ash Wednesday (n.) [ C usually singular ] 聖灰星期三（基督教四旬期首日） The first day of Lent in the Christian religion.
Ashweed (n.) (Bot.) Goutweed.
Ashy (a.) Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
Ashy (a.) Ash-colored; whitish gray; deadly pale.
Asian (a.) Of or pertaining to Asia; Asiatic. "Asian princes." -- Jer. Taylor.
Asian (n.) An Asiatic.
Asian (a.) 亞洲的；亞洲人的 Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries" [syn: {Asian}, {Asiatic}].
Asian (n.) 亞洲人 [C] A native or inhabitant of Asia [syn: {Asian}, {Asiatic}].
Asiarch (n.) One of the chiefs or pontiffs of the Roman province of Asia, who had the superintendence of the public games and religious rites. -- Milner.
Asiatic (a.) Of or pertaining to Asia or to its inhabitants.
Asiatic (n.) A native, or one of the people, of Asia.
Asiatic (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of Asia or the peoples of Asia or their languages or culture; "Asian countries" [syn: {Asian}, {Asiatic}].
Asiatic (n.) A native or inhabitant of Asia [syn: {Asian}, {Asiatic}].
Asiaticism (n.) Something peculiar to Asia or the Asiatics.
Aside (adv.) 在旁邊；到（或向）旁邊；（暫時地）離開；撇開 On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.
Aside (adv.) Out of one's thoughts; off; away; as, to put aside gloomy thoughts.
Aside (adv.) So as to be heard by others; privately.
Aside (n.) [C]（戲劇等中的）旁白；私語，悄悄話；離題的話 Something spoken aside; as, a remark made by a stageplayer which the other players are not supposed to hear.
Asilus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including the bee killer and robber fly.
Asilus (n.) I s a genus of robber flies in the family Asilidae. There are at least 150 described species in Asilus. [1] [2] [3]
Asilus (n.) The type genus of Asilidae.
Compare: Asilidae
Asilidae (pl. n.) 食蟲虻科 A family of rather large usually slender two-winged flies with strong legs and wings and the proboscis a hardened beak used for sucking the body fluids of other insects which they capture on the wing. -- compare Robber fly.
Compare: Robber fly
Robber fly (n.) 【昆】（亦作Megaphorus willistoni）強盜蒼蠅 Robber fly, (family Asilidae), also called Assassin fly, any of about 6,750 species of predatory insects, worldwide in distribution, in the fly order, Diptera. Robber flies range in length to almost 8 cm (3 inches), making them the largest of all flies. Most are dull in colour, and their stout, often hairy, bodies resemble those of bumble bees. Between the large-faceted eyes is a moustache of bristles. The long legs are adapted to capture prey in flight and to hold it while eating.
Compare: Megaphorus willistoni
Megaphorus willistoni (n.) Is a species of robber flies in the family Asilidae. [1] [2] [3] [4]