Asper

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Asper \As"per\ ([a^]s"p[~e]r), a. [OE. aspre, OF. aspre, F.
     [^a]pre, fr. L. asper rough.]
     Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An
     asper sound." --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Asper \As"per\ ([a^]s"p[~e]r), n. [L. spiritus asper rough
     breathing.] (Greek Gram.)
     The rough breathing; a mark ([asper]) placed over an initial
     vowel sound or over [rho] to show that it is aspirated, that
     is, pronounced with h before it; thus "ws, pronounced h[=o]s,
     "rh`twr, pronounced hr[=a]"t[=o]r.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Asper \As"per\, n. [F. aspre or It. aspro, fr. MGr. 'a`spron,
     'a`spros, 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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  asper
       n : 20 aspers equal 1 kuru