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noun
Asper  n.  A Turkish money of account (formerly a coin), of little value; the 120th part of a piaster.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Asper" Quotes from Famous Books



... juvenis, tandem custode remoto Gaudet equis, canibusque et aprici gramine campi; Cereus in vitium flecti, monitoribus asper, Utilium tardus provisor, prodigus aeris, Sublimis, cupidusque et amata ...
— The Cult of Incompetence • Emile Faguet

... head high and his heart lighter, and when his hobnailed shoe clinked on the fallen hammer he kicked it spinning from his path. That act brought a smile into his eyes, and he sauntered to the edge of the little plateau and looked down into the wide chasm of the Asper Valley. ...
— The Seventh Man • Max Brand

... the whole adjacent country. From thence the ground gradually declines towards Mardlen; and the eye glancing over the humid valley watered by the Norken, rests on another range of uplands, which, gently sinking, at length terminates near Asper. Within this space, two small streams, descending from the lower part of the hill of Oycke, embrace a low tongue of land, the centre of which rises to a gentle elevation. The borders of these rivulets are crossed by frequent enclosures, surrounding the farm-yards of Barwaen, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various

... referred to the second lieutenant, Mr Asper. This young man had a very high respect for birth, and particularly for money, of which he had very little. He was the son of an eminent merchant who, during the time that he was a midshipman, ...
— Mr. Midshipman Easy • Frederick Marryat

... Sunday; and the more he thought, the less he could remember it, till he began to think that months had gone without a Sunday. This he was certain of, that he had lost reckoning, for he had made no notches for the days for a long while past, and unless his slave Asper knew, there was no one to tell him. Here he got so puzzled, that it was like one of the bad dreams which had worried him. He felt it affect his head, and he was obliged to ...
— Callista • John Henry Cardinal Newman



Words linked to "Asper" :   Turkish monetary unit, piastre, piaster, kurus



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