Part 687

<note>&hand; The aspects which two planets can assume are five; sextile, <?/, when the planets are 60&deg; apart; quartile, or quadrate, <?/, when their distance is 90&deg; or the quarter of a circle; trine, <?/, when the distance is 120&deg;; opposition, <?/, when the distance is 180&deg;, or half a circle; and conjunction, <?/, when they are in the same degree. Astrology taught that the aspects of the planets exerted an influence on human affairs, in some situations for good and in others for evil.</note>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Astrol.)</fld> <def>The influence of the stars for good or evil; <as>as, an ill <ex>aspect</ex></as>.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>The astrologers call the evil influences of the stars evil <b>aspects</b>.

<i>Bacon.</i>

<cs><col>Aspect of a plane</col> <fld>(Geom.)</fld>, <cd>the direction of the plane.</cd></cs>

<h1>Aspect</h1> <Xpage=89>

<hw>As*pect"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>aspectare</ets>, v. intens. of <ets>aspicere</ets>. See <er>Aspect</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <def>To behold; to look at.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Aspectable</h1> <Xpage=89>

<hw>As*pect"a*ble</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>aspectabilis</ets>.]</ety> <def>Capable of being; visible.</def> "The <i>aspectable</i> world." <i>Ray</i>. "<i>Aspectable</i> stars." <i>Mrs. Browning</i>.

<h1>Aspectant</h1> <Xpage=89>

<hw>As*pect"ant</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Her.)</fld> <def>Facing each other.</def>

<h1>Aspected</h1> <Xpage=89>

<hw>As*pect"ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having an aspect.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>B. Jonson.</i>

<h1>Aspection</h1> <Xpage=89>

<hw>As*pec"tion</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>aspectio</ets>, fr. <ets>aspicere</ets> to look at.]</ety> <def>The act of viewing; a look.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Aspen, Asp</h1> <Xpage=89>

<hw><hw>Asp"en</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>Asp</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>\'91sp</ets>, <ets>\'91ps</ets>; akin to OHG. <ets>aspa</ets>, Icel. <ets>\'94sp</ets>, Dan. <ets>\'91sp</ets>, Sw. <ets>asp</ets>, D. <ets>esp</ets>, G. <ets>espe</ets>, <ets>\'84spe</ets>, <ets>aspe</ets>; cf. Lettish <ets>apsa</ets>, Lith. <ets>apuszis</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>One of several species of poplar bearing this name, especially the <i>Populus tremula</i>, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air.</def>

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<hw>Asp"en</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood.</def>

<blockquote>Nor <b>aspen</b> leaves confess the gentlest breeze. <i>Gay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Asper</h1> <Xpage=89>

<hw>As"per</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>aspre</ets>, OF. <ets>aspre</ets>, F. <ets>\'83pre</ets>, fr. L. <ets>asper</ets> rough.]</ety> <def>Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark> "An <i>asper</i> sound."

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Asper</h1> <Xpage=89>

<hw>As"per</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. spiritus <ets>asper</ets> rough breathing.]</ety> <fld>(Greek Gram.)</fld> <def>The rough breathing; a mark (#) placed over an initial vowel sound or over <?/ to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with <i>h</i> before it; thus <grk>hws</grk>, pronounced <i>h<?/s</i>, <grk>hrj'twr</grk>, <i>pronounced hr\'be\'b6t<?/r</i>.</def>

<h1>Asper</h1> <Xpage=89>