Vocabulary : Asbestus to Ascendant

Asbestus : Alt. of Asbestos
Asbolin : A peculiar acrid and bitter oil, obtained from wood soot.
Ascariasis : A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.
Ascarid : A parasitic nematoid worm, espec. the roundworm, Ascaris lumbricoides, often occurring in the human intestine, and allied species found in domestic animals; also commonly applied to the pinworm (Oxyuris), often troublesome to children and aged persons.
Ascarides : of Ascarid

Ascend : To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to descend. ;; To rise, in a figurative sense; to proceed from an inferior to a superior degree, from mean to noble objects, from particulars to generals, from modern to ancient times, from one note to another more acute, etc.; as, our inquiries ascend to the remotest antiquity; to ascend to our first progenitor. ;; To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to go up the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, a throne.
Ascendable : Capable of being ascended.
Ascendance : Same as Ascendency.
Ascendancy : Alt. of Ascendance
Ascendant : Ascent; height; elevation. ;; The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune. ;; Superiority, or commanding influence; ascendency; as, one man has the ascendant over another. ;; An ancestor, or one who precedes in genealogy or degrees of kindred; a relative in the ascending line; a progenitor; -- opposed to descendant. ;; Alt. of Ascendent

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