asper

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= Andropogon asper, _Heyne.

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  1. Rough; rugged; harsh; cruel; savage. Chaucer. All base notes … give an asper sound. Bacon, Nat. Hist., § 173.
  2. In Greek grammar, a sign (′) placed before or over an initial vowel or ρ to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced as if h preceded it; the rough breathing. Thus, ο=ς = hos; ῤίς = hris. [In Latin, and hence in modern, words derived from the Greek, aspirated r is represented by rh, as in rhinoceros, rhythm, the h being silent in the modern pronunciation.]
  3. An old Egyptian and Turkish silver coin: now only a money of account. A piaster is considered equal to 100 good aspers or 120 current ones. One current asper is equal to four ninths of a United States mill. Demanded of me, For what I valued at so many aspers, A thousand ducats. Massinger, The Renegado, i. 3.

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  • I've check everything on IIS asper Jeremyf's post -----. asd extension is pointing to v2. 0 aspnet_isapi. dll and 'verify file exists' is not checked. —  ASP.NET Forums
  • It is very closely allied to Andropogon asper, Heyne_, and it is very difficult to distinguish them. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Thus asper, rough asperior asperrimus pulcher, beautiful pulchrior pulcherrimus cer, sharp crior cerrimus celer, swift celerior celerrimus a. Notice mātūrus, mātūrior, mātūrissimus or mātūrrimus 4. —  New Latin Grammar
  • 189. The word "asper" means either "unsavoury" or "prickly," according to the context. —  The Captiva and the Mostellaria
  • He lighted one of the branches, upon which a dervish appeared, and after turning round for an hour, he threw down an asper (about 3 farthings) and vanished. —  Arabian nights. English
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  1. from Middle English aspre, aspere, from Old French aspre, from Latin asper, rough; origin undetermined.
  2. Short for L. spiritus asper, a translation of Greek πνεν=μα δασύ, rough breathing: see spirit and asper, a.
  3. = French aspre = Italian aspero, from Middle Latin asperus, asprus, asperum, asprum, from Middle Greek ᾰσπρον, properly neuter of ἄσπρος, white. In Turkish this coin is called aqcha, literally whitish, from aq, white, + -cha, -ja, equivalent to English -ish.
 

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