Asper: alternatives and connections

Sour, bitter, and harsh to the taste, as unripe fruit; sharp and harsh.

Sharp and harsh, or bitter and not, to the taste; pungent; as, acrid salts.

Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh; stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

The harsh cry of an ass; also, any harsh, grating, or discordant sound.

Same as Chase gun, esp. in terms bow chaser and stern chaser. See under Bow, Stern.

A powerful vegetable alkaloid, C17H19NO5, extracted from the Colchicum autumnale, or meadow saffron, as a white or yellowish amorphous…

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge.

Full of crags, or steep, broken //cks; abounding with prominences, points, and inequalities; rough; rugged.

Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.

A frame, like a balcony, projecting from the stern or quarter of a ship, and hence called stern gallery or quarter gallery, -- seldom…

Quiet and refined in manners; not rough, harsh, or stern; mild; meek; bland; amiable; tender; as, a gentle nature, temper, or disposit…

To rub roughly or harshly, as one body against another, causing a harsh sound; as, to grate the teeth; to produce (a harsh sound) by r…

That grates; making a harsh sound; harsh.

Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough.