asper

asper is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.Rough; rugged; harsh; bitter; stern; fierce. [Archaic] "An asper sound." Bacon.
  2. 2.The rough breathing; a mark placed over an initial vowel sound or over h before it; thus hws, pronounced h, hrj'twr, pronounced hra\'b6t.
  3. 3.A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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