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aspn.1

/ɑːsp//asp/
Forms: Old English æspæ, æspe, æps, Old English–1500s espe, Middle English hespe, Middle English–1600s aspe, 1500s esp, 1500s– asp.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Common Germanic: with Old English æspæ , æspe , compare Old High German aspâ , modern German espe , Old Germanic *aspôn , weak feminine. With Old English æps = æsp , compare Old Norse ösp (= aspu ), Old Germanic *aspâ , strong feminine. See also aspen adj. and n.
1.
a. A tree of the poplar family ( Populus tremula), with greyish bark and spreading branches, the leaves of which are specially liable to the tremulous motion that characterizes all the poplars. Sometimes loosely used of other poplars.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [noun] > aspen
aspc700
white poplar1542
quaking asp1549
quaking aspen1586
aspen1590
trembling poplar1698
tremble1749
American aspen1785
quaking asp1822
quaking aspen1845
mountain ash1871
c700 Epinal Gloss. 1006 Tremulus aespae, Erfurt espe..Corpus 2048 aespe.
c1000 Ælfric Gloss. (Zup.) 312 Abies, æps.
c1000 Gloss. in Earle Plant-n. 21 Tremulos, æspe.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 2645 And quok as dooth the leefe of aspe [v.r. espe, aspis, aspes] grene.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 749 The Popler is of three sortes..white..blacke, and the thirde is called Aspe.
1626 F. Bacon New Atlantis (1650) 27 An Ivy somewhat whiter then ours, like the leafe of a Silver Aspe.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxix. 458 Trembling Poplar or Asp has leaves..smooth on both sides.
1848 G. F. Ruxton in Blackwood's Mag. 63 713 Cherry and quaking asp..belted the little brook.
b. attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > poplars and allies > [adjective]
aspa1000
popple1229
aspenc1386
poplared1881
a1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 332 Nim æps-rinde.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 646/36 Hec tremulus, a hespetre.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. F.iiijv Populus is of two kyndes, the fyrste..whyte Popler or white Esptree. The seconde..an Asp tree, or a blacke popler.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique vii. xv. 824 The white poplar, otherwise called the aspe tree.
1761 B. Stillingfleet Cal. Flora 3 Asp flower buds begin to open.
2. The wood of this tree.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > wood of other specific trees
thornc1330
poplara1450
asp1551
angelin1670
dogwood1670
serpent-wood1681
locust wood1742
canarium1776
stave-wood1778
lacewood1803
Canary wood1820
chestnut1823
brier-wood1868
jasmine-wood1870
angelique1873
sakura1911
1551 W. Turner Herball (1568) 66 Flechers make prykke shaftes of byrche because it is heuier than espe is.
1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod ii. i. 54 He commends sound ash for military arrows, and preferred it to asp.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

aspn.2

/ɑːsp//asp/
Etymology: < Latin aspis, < Greek ἀσπίς . The Latin form was also formerly in use, and was occasionally treated as English with plural aspisses . Compare Old French aspe , and see also aspic n.1, aspide n.
Zoology.
1. A small, venomous, hooded serpent, found in Egypt and Libya; the Naja Haje.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Elapidae or Najidae > naja haje (Egyptian cobra)
asp1340
Egyptian cobra1910
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 257 An eddre þet is yhote ine latin aspis.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Rom. iii. 13 The venym of eddris, that ben clepid aspis, vndur her lippis.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vi. 78 A beest named Aspis that may not be..taken but by charmyng.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Rom. iii. 13 The poyson of Aspes.
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 72v At thy breasts (as at Cleopatras) Aspisses shall be put out to nurse.
1627 T. May tr. Lucan Pharsalia (new ed.) ix. 806 Rose the sleep-causing Aspe with swelling head.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 159 Of temper as envenomed as an asp.
1869 J. Ruskin Queen of Air §68 There is more poison in an ill-kept drain..than in the deadliest asp of Nile.
2. Also applied to a species of Viper ( Vipera Aspis) found in various parts of Europe, and used poetically of any venomous serpent.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > group of venomous snakes > venomous snake
deaf addereOE
adderOE
aspidec1000
shadow-addera1382
chelydre1393
tyre1471
viper1526
seps?1527
aspic1530
thirsty snake1567
aspworm1587
cheliderect?1590
viper-worm1605
palmer-serpent1608
polonga1681
asp1710
thirst-serpent1731
venom-snake1845
thanatophidian1891
solenoglyph1913
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Vipera > member of
addereOE
ammodyte1608
asp1710
truncheon-snake1737
viper1802
1710 J. Swift Sid Hamet 1 Till Metamorphos'd by his Grasp, It grew an all-devouring Asp.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV clx. 83 The enormous asp Enforces pang on pang, and stifles gasp on gasp.
1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. v. i. 248 The Common Viper or Asp is a serpent to be carefully avoided.

Compounds

C1. attributive and in other combinations.
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1876 S. Birch Rede Lect. Egypt 39 Invested with the asp diadem of the crown.
C2.
aspworm n. Obsolete = asp.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > member of (snake) > group of venomous snakes > venomous snake
deaf addereOE
adderOE
aspidec1000
shadow-addera1382
chelydre1393
tyre1471
viper1526
seps?1527
aspic1530
thirsty snake1567
aspworm1587
cheliderect?1590
viper-worm1605
palmer-serpent1608
polonga1681
asp1710
thirst-serpent1731
venom-snake1845
thanatophidian1891
solenoglyph1913
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xii. 205 We knowe the Aspworme by his stinging of vs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

aspn.3

Brit. /asp/, U.S. /æsp/
Origin: Probably a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: ass n.1
Etymology: Probably an alteration of ass n.1 (compare ass n.1 4), by folk-etymological association with asp n.2
In hand papermaking: a curved wooden post or prop at the edge of the vat against which a form or mould is laid at an angle to drain; = ass n.1 4.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > paper-making equipment > [noun] > other paper-making equipment
reel1809
deckle1810
ass1823
stuff-shovel1858
grounding-machine1877
asp1919
riffler1924
1919 E. Phillpotts Storm in Teacup x. 90 Kellock clasped the deckle on to his second mould, now returned from the coucher, and dipped again, while his assistant, taking the full mould from the asp, turned it over on to the accumulating pile of sheets rising on his plank.
1947 D. Hunter Papermaking (ed. 2) vi. 178 The coucher placed the mould..against the inclined drainage-horn, or ‘asp’, which allowed the surplus water to drain back into the vat.
1947 D. Hunter Papermaking (ed. 2) xv. 437 The coucher..leans the mould against the asp or horn at the proper angle.
1988 R. A. Hills Papermaking in Brit. 1488–1988 (2015) ii. 26 The coucher took his mould and le[a]nt it against a small post, the asp, to drain.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

Aspn.4

Brit. /ˌeɪɛsˈpiː/, U.S. /ˌeɪˌɛsˈpi/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: aspartic adj., English aspartic acid.
Etymology: Shortened < aspartic adj., as a graphic abbreviation of aspartic acid (see aspartic acid at aspartic adj.).
Biochemistry.
The amino acid aspartic acid.
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the world > matter > chemistry > organic chemistry > organic compounds > [noun] > amino acids
alanine1850
serine1870
amino-acid1887
histidine1896
canavanine1932
Glu1937
Gly1937
Ala1945
Asp1945
alliin1947
Asn1957
Asx1957
Glx1958
Gln1961
1945 E. Brand et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Chem. Soc. 67 1530/1 The residues of cysteine, half-cystine, asparagine, and glutamine we propose to designate by CySH, (Cy S-), (Asp-NH2) and (Glu-NH2), respectively.
1988 BioFactors 1 142/2 When Glu, Asp or Cys is the N-terminal amino acid, each can undergo post-translational argininylation.
2001 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 98 10396/1 The Asp-280-to-Ala mutation has no abrogative effect on reductase domain folding.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

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ASP
ASP n. Computing application service provider.
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1998 PR Newswire (Nexis) 1 July New report defines role of application service providers (ASPs).
2007 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 14 May (Business section) 10 After failing to take off five or six years ago, ASPs are starting to come back into favour with investors.
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