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Show the caufe of thame if anoun, and fo if verb Ast'pE. adwv. [from a and fide. The ftorm rufh'd in, and Arcite ftood aghaft The flames were blown afide, yet fhone they brighit Fann'd by the wind, and gave a ruffied light Dryden Taplor's Holy Living QOne would have thought fhe would have firr'd but ftrov With modefty, and was afban'd to moye. Dryden This I have fhadowed, that you may not b afpamed of that hero, whofe protetion you underDryden take Asu-coLoURED. adj. [from afb and coJour, Coloured between brown an grey, like the bark of an afhen branch To another part 2 A'sHEN. adj wood [from a/b. Woodward on Foffils Mad of af fortable thing for kings to have, yet it drawet Bacon the fubjeéts eyes a little afide At once he faid, and thre His afben fpear, which quiver'd as it flew Dryd the fingular. [apca A'sues. n. [. want Sax. afche, Dutch. 1. The remains of any thing burnt Some relicks would be left of 1t, as when afbc remain of burned bodies Digby on Bodics "This late diffenfion, grown between the peers Burns under feigned afbes of forg'd love And will at laft break out into a flame Shakefp. Herry V1 Afbes contain a very fertile falt, and are the bef manute for cold lands, if kept dry, that the rai doth not wath away their falt Mortimer's Hufb 2. The remain of the body ; often ufe in poetry for the carcafe, from the ancient practice of burning the dead Poor key-cold figure of a holy king Pale afpes of the houfe of Lancafter @hou bloodlefs remnant of that royal blood Pope A'sutrar.n /. [with mafons.] Free ftone as they come out of the quarry, of difbreadths an Be Lat. [from affnus You fhall have more ado to drive our dullef youth, our ftocks and fubs from fuch nurture, tha we have now to hale our choiceft and hopefullef wits to that afimire feaft of fow-thiftles and bramMilton bles To Asx w. a [aycian Saxon. 1. To petition ; to beg: fometimes wit an accufative only 3 fometimes with for, ‘When thou doft g/t me bleffing, I'll kneel down And aff of thee forgivenefs Shakefpeare We have nothing elfe to 4/, but tha Which you deny already : yet will a/ That, if we fail in our requeft, the blam May hang upon your hardnefs Shakefpeare In long journies, 4 ale to the horfes demand your malter leave to giv Saift to claim as to a Aff me never fo much dowry and gift, and will give according as ye fhall fay unto me: bu give me the damfel to wife Gonefis, xxxive 12 He faw his friends, who, whelm'd beneath th Thei waves funeral honour claim'd quiet graves inhabitan o and af&'d thei Dryden's Aneid 3. To queftion Aroer ftan by the way an thick efpy, aft him that flieth, and her that efcapeth and fay, what is done Feremiah, xlviii. 19 ASHLEERING. n / [with builders. Quartering in garrets, about two - foo and a half or three foot high, perpendicular to the floor, and reaching to th ander fide of the rafters. 4+ To enquire ; with affer before the thing nefles Builder's Di& Asuo'RE. adv. [from a and fhore. 1. On fhore on the land The poor Englithman riding in the road, havin all that he brought thither afbore, would have bee Raleigh undone 2. To the fhore ; to the land ‘We may as bootlefs fpend our vain command As fend our precepts to the leviatha To come afbore Shakefps Henry V May thy billows rowl afbor The beryl, and the golden ore Milton's Comus Moor'd in a Chian creek, afbore T went And all the following night in" Chigs fpent Addifon's Ovid Asuwe'pNEsDAY 7./. The firft day o Lent, {o called fro the ancient cufto of {prinkling afhes on the head A'saWEED. #./. [from g/ and aweed. An herb A'suy. adj. {from a/.] Afh-coloured pale ; inclining to a whitifh grey Oft have I feen a timely parted ghof Of afby femblance, meagre, pale, and bloodlefs You.d Shakyfpeare He faid, wherefore is it tha tho doft afk afte my name ? And he blefled him there Gengfis, xxxii. 29 5. To require; as phyfically neceflary As it is a great point of art, when our matte requires it, to enlarge and veer out all fail ; fo t take it in and contraét ityis no lefs praife when th argument doth af it Ben Fonfon A lump of ore in the bottom of a mine will b ftirred by two men's ftrength ; which, if you brin it to the top of the earth, will 2/ fix men to ftir it Bacon The adminiftration pafles into different hand at the end of two months, which contributes t difpatch: but any exigence of ftate afks a muc longer time to condu€t any defign to its maturity Addifon To Ask. . 1. To petition 3 to beg: with for befor the thing My fon, haft thou finned? do fo no more, bu afk pardon for thy former fins Ecclus. xxi. 1 If he afk for bread, will he give him a ftone Matt. vii. 9 2, To make enquiry ; with for or of befor the thing. 'To enquire Stand ye in the ways, and fee, and a/t for th old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein and ye fhall find reft for your fouls. Ferem For aft now of the days that are paft were before thee, fince the day that Go man upon the ¢arth, and a/k from the on Gibfor's Camden NVCE fi.: i{ :'2 Ni Y } adv. Sideways ; obliquely nof, told him, it becam her evil Sidney His wanrifh eyes upon them bent aftance, And when he faw their labours well fucceed He wept for rage, and threaten'd dire mifchance Fairfax Some fay, he bid his angels turn afkanc The poles of earth, twice ten degrees, and more From the {un's axle ; they with labour pufh' Oblique the centrick globe Midtor price for goods To great Laertes I bequeat A tafk of grief, his ornaments of death Left, when the fates his royal afpes claim The Grecian matrons taint my fpotlefs name lengths BelongDié longing to an afs 2. T Shakefpeare. feren as, to {peak afide He took him afide from the multitude Mark, viie 33 A'siNINE. adj an afh tree underfiood hi He had no brother§ which though it be a com A'sinary. adj. [afinarius, Lat. ing to an afs L zyc, zeeping a countenance aftance, as fh out of the true direc 3. From the company any fuch thing as this great thing ic, or hath bee heard like it Deut. iv. 32 | Ask, Asu, As, do all come from the Saxo tion Clay, a/b-colaured, was part of a ftratum whic lay above the ftrata of ftone direétion or of an not being afpamed of the word of God heaven unto the other, whether there hath bee fide; out of the perpendicula 1. Toen Profefs publickly the doérine of Jefus Chrift practices enjoined by it A ST AS AS vi. 16 whic create Gde: o Aska'unT, adv Obliquely; onone fide At this Achilles roll'd his furious eyes Fix'd on the king afkaunt5 and thus replies O, impudent Dryden Since the fpace, that lies on either fid The folar orb, is without limits wide Grant that the funhad happen'd to prefe A feat afkaunt, but one diameter Loft to the light by that unhappy place This globe had lain a frozen loanfome mafs A'sker Blackmore n /. [from gf. 1. Petitioner Have yo Ere now denied the after 2 and now agai On him that did not afk, but mock, beftow Shakefpeare The greatnefs of the afker, and the fmallnefs o the thing afked, had been fufficient to enforce hi requeft South 2. Enquirer Every. afkcr being fatisfied, we may conclude that all their conceptions of being in a place ar the fame Digby of Bodics A'skER. 7 f. A water newt Asxe'w. adv. [from @ and flew. with contempt Afide For when ye mildly look with lovely hue Then is my foul with life and love infpir' But when ye lowre, or look on me afkezv Spenfer Then do I die Then take it, Sir, as it was writ Nor look affewv at what it faith Prior There's no petition in it 7o AsLa'xe. . a. [from a and fake, o Slack.] To remit ; tomitigate; to flac ken. Obfolete. But this continualy cruel, civil wa No fkill can ftint, nor reafon can aflake. Spenfer Whilft feeking to aflake thy raging fire Thou in me kindleft much more great defire Spenfer AsLA'NT. adv. [from @ and flant.] Obliquely ; on one fide ; not perpendicu larly There is a willow grows aflant a brook That fhews his hoar leaves in the glafly ftreant Shakefpeare's Hamlet He fell5 the fhaf Drove thro" his neck aflant; he fpurns the ground And the foul iffues through the weazon's wound AsLE'EP. adv. [from a and fleep. 1. Sleeping ; at reft Drydm How many thoufands of my pooreft fubje& Are at this hour afleep ! O gentle fleep Nature's foft nurfe, how haveI frighted thee! Shakefpeare The diligence of trade, and noifeful gain And luxury more late affeep were laid All was the night's, and, in her filent reign Dryden No found the reft of nature did invade Thare is no difference between a perfon affecp and in an apoplexy, but that the one can be awaArbuthnor o Dict ked, and the ether cannot 2. T |