Aside ||n|| A line spoken by an actor to the audience but not intended for others on the stage. 2. a message that departs from the main subject; digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis.
| Old English | sp | English |
| As | adv | Conj |
| As | phr | "As Broad as Long" - having a length equal to the breadth; hence, the same one way as the other. 2. coming to the same result by different ways or procedure. |
| As | phr | "As Far As" - in respect to, in the score of,as relates. 2. to the best of one's knowledge. 3. |
| As | phr | "As Far Forth As" - to the greatest extent and distance away from |
| As | phr | "As Good As One's Word" - true to avow or promise. |
| As | phr | "As if" - of the same kind. 2. in the same way or manner. 3. what it would be if. |
| As | phr | "As is - actual, as thing are. 2. that be, that is, as though. 4 fresh, new. |
| As | phr | "As It Is" - in the actual and often different to expectation and/or hope. |
| As | phr | "As It Were" - a phrase used to apologise for; or to lessen the appropriateness of something done or expressed. |
| As | phr | "As Needed" - according to need. 2. as required or done. |
| As | phr | "As Soon As" - immediately at or after an other event. |
| As | phr | As the Crow Flies" - by the shortest and most direct way. |
| As | phr | "As Things Run" - according to the usual order, condition, quality. |
| As | phr | "As Though" - as if. 2. in the same way or manner. |
| As | phr | "As Well As" - also, too, besides. |
| As | phr | "As Yet" - until now. 2. up to the present. 3. still now. |
| Ash | n | Powdery residue of combustion. |
| Asad | adj | Sated, weary, hence tired |
| Asake | vb | Deny, refuse, renounce, forsake |
| Asear | vb | Dry up, wither |
| Aseek | vb | To search after, seek. |
| Aseethe | adv | Seething. |
| Asench | vb | To cause to sink, submerge, cease |
| Asend | vb | To send forth. |
| Aset | vb | To set up, to set out, place, to array, to appoint. |
| As Follows | adv | - what is listed as next. |
| Ash | n | Powdery residue of combustion; the solid remains of a fire. 2. (chemistry) The nonaqueous remains of a material subjected to any complete oxidation process. 3. fine particles from a volcano, volcanic ash. 4. human (or animal) remains after cremation (ashes.) 5. 9figuratively) what remains after a catastrophe. |
| Ash | vb | Chemistry, to reduce to a residue of ash; ashing. 2. to hit the end off of a burning cigar or cigarette. 2. (obsolete,) To cover newly-sown fields of crops with ashes. |
| A'shake | vb | To sake off, dispel, to be gone, depart. |
| Ashame | vb | To feel ashamed, shame. 2. to put to shame, to make ashamed. |
| Ashamed | adj | Feeling shame or guilt. |
| Ashamedly | adv | With shame. 2. bashfully. |
| Ashamedness | n | State of being ashamed. |
| Ashaming | ppl | Putting to shame, making ashamed. |
| Ash-brown | adj | Of browny or brownish ash in colour. |
| Ashend | vb | Confound, disagree, curse, reproach |
| Ash-fire | n | A low fire of ash and cinders used in chemical operations. |
| Ash-grey | n | Ashish grey in colour. |
| Ash-like | adj | Like or resembling ash in apperance or colour |
| Ash-looking | adj | Resembling or looking like ash. |
| A'shun | vb | To shun, avoid, escape. |
| Ashunch | vb | Terrify, frighten |
| Ash-Wednesday | n | The Christian day of penitence, which takes place forty days before Easter. |
| Ashweed | n | Goutweed, Aegopodium podagraria. |
| Ash-white | adj | Of a whitish-grey colour. |
| Ashy | adj | Consisting of ashes. 2. covered or sprinkling of ashes. 3. ash-coloured, deadly pale. |
| Aside | adv | Aside or to one side. 2. out of the way (especially away from one's thoughts.) 3. not taken into account or excluded from consideration. 4. in a different direction. 5. placed or kept separate and distinct as for a purpose. 6. in reserve; not for immediate use. |
| Aside | phr | "At the Side Of" - besides, (fig): standing staunch with your fellows. |
| Aside-half | adv | Aside-hand, on or toone side. |
| Aside-hand | adv | On the side. |
| Asidely | adv | Indirectly. |
| Asiden | adv | Sidewise, obliquely, aslant, sidewards. |
| Asideness | n | State of being aside, apartness, isolation |
| A'sink | vb | To sink down, become submerged. |
| A'sit | vb | To sit, settle, remain sitting. |
| Ask | n | A newt or eft, an asker. |
| Ask | vb | |
| Ask | n | An asking, inquiry, thing asked, request. |
| Ask | phr | "Ask for Somebody' - enquiure abot somebody's health, happiness |
| Ask | phr | "Ask For" - to request. |
| Ask | phr | "Ask For It" - to deserve, invite unpleasantness or misfortune |
| Ask | phr | "Ask Over" - to invite to one's house. |
| Ask | phr | "If You Ask Me" - in my view or opinion. |
| Asked | ppl | Mentioned as a request |
| Asker | n | A questioner, inquisitor. 2. one who asks favors gifts, supplicants, asker for alms, a professional beggar. 3. a prosecutor, plaintiff. 4. exactor, oppressor. |
| Asking | n | The action of asking. 2. interogation, inquiry. 3. the action of rquesting a favour, a gift, begging. 4. a petition, prayer, supplication. 5. a price asked, a demand. 6. an appeal, a calling for justice or to the law. 7. oppression, exaction. 8. the ublication of the banns of marriage. |
| Asking | adj | That asks, inquiring, begging, supplicant. |
| Asking | phr | "For the Asking" - freely avialable. |
| Askingly | adv | In a asking manner; inquiringly, with entreaty. |
| Aslake | vb. | To become slack, slacken, feeble, dimming, growing less, abating. 2. to become less hot, to grow cool. 3. to mitigate, alleviate, assuage, to lessen, abate, diminish. 4. to appease a person. |
| A'slay | vb | To strike, to strike off. 2. to slay, kill. |
| Asleep | adj | In a state of sleep. 2. lacking sensation. 3. dormant. 4. dead. 5. of the body's extremities: numbed and usually tingling. |
| Asleep | adv | In a sleepy state. 2. in the sleep of death, dead. |
| Aslide | vb | To slide, slip away. |
| A'smear | adv | Smeared. |
| Asnese | vb | To impale, gore, stab |
| A-soak | adv | Soaking. |
| A-soft | vb | To make soft, to soften, mitigate. |
| Asp | n | |
| A'spare | vb | To spare, to afford. |
| A'spare | adv | Sparingly; at liberty. |
| Aspen | n | Belonging to the asp tree. 2. fig. tremulous, quoutering, quaking, timidity (in reference to a woman's tongue). |
| A'spend | vb | To spend, expend. |
| Aspen-like | adj | Weak, timorous, feeble. |
| A'spill | vb | To spill, waste, render useless. 2. to destroy, slay, kill. |
| A'spread | vb | To spread out, spread abroad. |
| A'spring | vb | To spring up, leap, spring forth, spread abroad. 2. to spring into existence, orginate, arise. |
| Ass | n | Donkey. |
| Ass | phr | "To Make an Ass of Oneself" - |
| Ass-headiness | n | Stupidity, blockheadness. |
| Assish | adj | Asinine, stupid. |
| Assishly | adv | In an asinine or stupid manner. |
| Assishness | n | Asininity, stupidity, foolishness, stultiness. |
| Ass-like | adj | Asinine; ass-headish, stupid. |
| Asself | vb | To take to oneself; to appropriate. |
| Assy | adj | Asinine, stupid, stulty. |
| A'stand | vb | To stand up. 2. to come to a stand, stop, arrive. 3. to remain standing, to continue, abide, resist. 4. to withstand. |
| A-stare | adv | Staring. 2. prominent. |
| A'start | vb | To start up, to start off. 2. to start into existence, happen, befall, fall out. 3. get way, avoid, shun, escape. 4. remove, withraw, desist. |
| A'start | adv | With a start, suddenly. |
| A'steal | vb | To steal or slip away. |
| A-steep | adv | Steeping or soakingly, |
| Asteer | adv | Earlier form of stir. 2. in stirring up, moving about, in motion; sirring out of bed. 3. in excitement. |
| A'stell | vb | To set up, set afoot, establish. |
| Asterve | vb | To die, esp. of hunger. 2. to starve out, destroy, kill. |
| Astint | vb | To bring to a standstill. |
| Astir | vb | To stir up, move, disturb. 2. to excite physically and emotionally |
| Astir | adv | Stirring up, esp. out of bed and moving about in motion; fig. in excitement. see "a'steer.' |
| Astirbroad | adv | Stirring abroad, moving from place to place. |
| As-told-to | adj | Usually in reference to a book or some written article: of a biographical account, etc. written by a professional author using material gathered from personal conversation with the subject. |
| A-straddle | adv | In a straddling position with legs stretch out widely across something or someone. |
| A-straddle | phr | "A-straddling Of" - bestridding. |
| A-strand | adv | On or along the strand or shore. |
| A'stream | adv | In a stream; that streams, streaming, flowing. |
| A'strength | vb | To strengthen, establish, confirm. |
| A'stride | adv | With one leg on each side, as a person on a horse. 2. with the legs stretched far apart. |
| A'sty | vb | To go up, ascend. 2. to rise withits summit. 3. to go or come down, descend. 4. to rise in arms. nb:stygend, |
| A'stying | n | Ascension. |
| Asunder | adv | |
| Asundering | n | The act of putting asunder. 2. separation. |
| Asunderness | n | The state of being asunder. 2. separation, separateness. |
| A'swarm | adv | Swarmingly, throngingly, crowdily. |
| A'sweat | adv | Sweating, moist. |
| A'sweeten | vb | To make sweet or sweeter, dulcify. 2. to make less bitter. |
| Aswelt | vb | To perish, die, become extinct. |
| Asweve | vb | Put to sleep, put to death, kill, execute. 2. to stun. |
| A'sweven | n | Sleep. 2. a dream, a vision seen in sleep. |
| A'sweye | vb | To betray, desert. abandon. 2. to desist, cease, stop. |
| Aswike | vb | To cease, desist, fail, give up |
| A'swind | vb | To languish away, vanish, perish. |
| A'swind | adj | Languishing, worn out, enervated. |
| A'swing | adv | Swinging, swaying. |
| A'swink | vb | Labour or toil for |
| A'swithe | vb | To do as quickly as possible |
| A'swithe | adv | As quickly as possible. |
| A'swolkeness | n. | Sloth, laziness. |
| A'swoon | adv | In a swoon or faint. |
| A'swoon | phr | "To Fall A'swoon." - to faint away. |
| A'swough | vb | To overgrow, choke. |
| A'swough | adv | Falling in a faint or swoon. |
| A'sye | vb. | Sink down, set |
| As | phr | "As Yet" - until now. 2. up to the present. 3. still now. |