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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A person who casts no shadow at noon. The inhabitants of the torrid zone alone fulfil this condition, having the sun twice a year in their zenith at noon.

Wiktionary

  1. n. person or thing without a shadow
  2. n. person or thing found close to the Equator

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. One of the Ascii.

Etymologies

  1. From Latin ascius ("without shadow"), from Ancient Greek ἄσκιος (askios, "without shadow"), from ἀ- (a-, "not") + σκιά (skia, "shadow") (Wiktionary)

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  • michaelt42 Richard Strauss wrote an opera about a female Ascian, unsurprsingly called "Die Frau ohne Schatten." An ascian artefact whose purpose is vitiated twice a year by its being on the equator is the gnomon of a sundial. May 7, 2013

  • blafferty Whoops, nope! Sorry, tricked you! May 9, 2011

  • Prolagus blafferty is a he?! May 9, 2011

  • gangerh Identify the Wordienik!!
    This was blafferty's chosen word. He says he knows he's not on here much, but thought maybe that's why the word fits. May 9, 2011

  • treeseed ascian (ASH-ee-in)- a person without a shadow Jan 28, 2008

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