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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Asper

As′per (ăs′pẽr), a. [OE. aspre, OF. aspre, F. âpre, fr. L. asper rough.] Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.

As′per (ăs′pẽr), n. [L. spiritus asper rough breathing.] (Greek Gram.) The rough breathing; a mark (̔) placed over an initial vowel sound or over ρ to show that it is aspirated, that is, pronounced with h before it; thus ὡς, pronounced hōs, ρἥτωρ, pronounced hrā′tōr.

As′per, n. [F. aspre or It. aspro, fr. MGr. ἄσπρον, ἄσπρος, white (prob. from the whiteness of new silver coins).] A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.