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Asses

As \As\, n.; pl. Asses. [L. as. See Ace.]

  1. A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.

  2. A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce. [1913 Webster] ||

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asses

n. 1 (plural of ass English) 2 (plural of as English)

Usage examples of "asses".

Ali Aga had gone ahead, an hour earlier, with two asses, and was waiting by the Three Vaults.

He had stuffed his glasses down his chest and reeled out to the Hospital Gate.

He held a fly whisk and moved it languidly from side to side to keep the flies from the little bags of cloves, nutmeg, mastic and cinnamon and the little glasses of laurel and myrtle oil.

Why the devil was that fellow with the long coattails and the sagging glasses intruding on them?

Frozen masses of snow glimmered in white streaks from deep hollows protected from the wind.

He'll come back like his Uncle Tityros the schoolmaster, a seedy creature with glasses and a hollow rump!

You'll ruin your eyes, you poor child, wear glasses and get yourself laughed at.

Barba Jannis had transferred his father's art from the mares and she-asses to women.

What great coarse asses' throats these Kastrians have, thought Penelope, pursing her lips.

And I should have lived in Re-thymno, where the best people live, and not here with the Kastrians—the asses!

It was an underground vault, with ledges and cushions all around, with a low table in the middle and a cupboard sunk hi the wall, where full bottles and raki glasses were always kept.

And those asses' voices of theirs were not suited to the love songs of Zante.

In Nuri Bey's house there was a crash of glasses, 119 I dishes and lamps, as they fell to the ground and smashed.

Captain Michales wrenched himself out of the dream with such a jerk that the table capsized, and everything on it—glasses, plates, candles, tobacco boxes—rolled all over the room.

And Vangelio herself was crouching like an animal to defend herself against it, against that repulsive animal—for so this marriage seemed to her to be—with this half-helping of a bridegroom, with his glasses, his soft priest's voice and his disgusting sheeplike gentleness.