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Asteriated
a.
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Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.
Asteridian
a.
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Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea.
Asteridian
n.
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A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.
Asterioidea
n. pl.
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Alt. of Asteridea
Asteridea
n. pl.
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A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal.
Asterion
n.
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The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.
Asteriscus
n.
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The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.
Asterisk
n.
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The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.
Asterism
n.
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A constellation.
Asterism
n.
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A small cluster of stars.
Asterism
n.
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An asterisk, or mark of reference.
Asterism
n.
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Three asterisks placed in this manner, /, to direct attention to a particular passage.
Asterism
n.
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An optical property of some crystals which exhibit a star-shaped by reflected light, as star sapphire, or by transmitted light, as some mica.
Astern
adv.
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In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.
Astern
adv.
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Behind a ship; in the rear.
Asternal
a.
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Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.
Asteroidal
a.
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Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.
Asterolepis
n.
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A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.
Astert
v. t.
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To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun.
Astert
v. i.
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To escape.
Asthenia
n.
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Alt. of Astheny
Astheny
n.
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Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.
Asthenic
a.
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Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.
Asthenopia
n.
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Weakness of sight.
Asthma
n.
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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.
Asthmatic
a.
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Alt. of Asthmatical
Asthmatic
n.
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A person affected with asthma.
Astigmatic
a.
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Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.
Astigmatism
n.
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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.
Astipulate
v. i.
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To assent.