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5. To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons. Fuller.

Syn. -- To beg; request; seek; petition; solicit; entreat; beseech; implore; crave; require; demand; claim; exhibit; inquire; interrogate. See Beg.

Ask, v. i. 1. To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.

Ask, and it shall be given you. Matt. vii. 7.

2. To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.

Wherefore . . . dost ask after my name? Gen. xxxii. 29.

Ask (&?;), n. [See 2d Asker.] (Zoöl.) A water newt. [Scot. & North of Eng.]

{ A*skance" (&?;), A*skant" (&?;), } adv. [Cf. D. schuin, schuins, sideways, schuiven to shove, schuinte slope. Cf. Asquint.] Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion.

They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie.

My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor.

Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

A*skance", v. t. To turn aside. [Poet.]

O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

Ask"er, n. One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer. Shak.

Ask"er, n. [A corruption of AS. a&?;exe lizard, newt.] (Zoöl.) An ask; a water newt. [Local Eng.]

A*skew", adv. & a. [Pref. a- + skew.] Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.

Ask"ing, n. 1. The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow.

2. The publishing of banns.

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A*slake" (*slk"), v. t. & i. [AS. slacian, slacian, to slacken. Cf. Slake.] To mitigate; to moderate; to appease; to abate; to diminish. [Archaic] Chaucer.

A*slant" (&?;), adv. & a. [Pref. a- + slant.] Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely.

A*slant", prep. In a slanting direction over; athwart.

There is a willow grows aslant a brook. Shak.

A*sleep", a. & adv. [Pref. a- + sleep.] 1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant.

Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden.

By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton.

2. In the sleep of the grave; dead.

Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. 1 Thess. iv. 13.