aspérité, n.f., asperity, roughness, ruggedness; harshness; unevenness.

aspersion, n.f., aspersion, sprinkling, besprinkling.

aspersoir, n.m., holy-water brush; rose (of a water-pot).

aspérule, n.f., (bot.) wood-ruff.

asphalte, n.m., asphalt, asphaltum.

asphaltique or asphaltite, adj., asphaltic, bituminous. Le lac —; the asphaltic lake, the Dead Sea.

asphodèle, n.m., (bot.) asphodel, king’s-spear, wild daffodil.

asphyxiant, adj., asphyxiating, suffocating.

asphyxie, n.f., (med.) asphyxy, suffocation, suspended animation.