Asphyxy: Definition and part of speech

Asphyxy

  1. n. Apparent death, or suspended animation; the condition which results from interruption of respiration, as in suffocation or drowning, or the inhalation of irrespirable gases.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Asper: Definition and part of speech

Asper

  1. n. A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.
  2. a. Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce.
  3. n. The rough breathing; a mark (/) placed over an initial vowel sound or over / to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus “ws, pronounced h/s, “rh`twr, pronounced hra”t/r.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.