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.

AA turn of the cable which is round the bitts.

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

To sound loudly and somewhat harshly.

To pound, beat, rub, or grind small or fine.

One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.

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…

A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.

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 long and narrow corridor, or place for walking; a connecting passageway, as between one room and another; also, a long hole or passa…

Well-born; of a good family or respectable birth, though not noble.

Serving to gratify; agreeable.

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Harsh; hard; severe; stern; rough.