Asphalt

as-falt′, or as′falt, Asphaltum , as-falt′um, n. a black or dark-brown, hard, bituminous substance, anciently used as a cement, and now for paving, cisterns, water-pipes, .— v.t. Asphalt′ , to lay or cover with asphalt.— adj. Asphalt′ic . [Gr. asphaltos , from an Eastern word.]