astire, aistre, astre

[O. Fr.) The hearth. "Bad her take the pot, that sod ouer the fire, And set it abooue vpon the astire." Schole House of Women, 620. (Boucher.) IMG:content-0837.png:[blocks in formation] 1. At once; immediately, suddenly. "I schal telle hit, as - tit , as I in toun herde, With tonge." Sir Gawryne & the Green Knyght (ed. Morris), 81-1 2. Quickly. "Therefore trewely astyt he told him the so the." William and the Werwolf, 290. ( Boucher .) "He dyde on hys clothys astyte." MS . Harl. 1,701, 1. 46, 6. ( Boucher . ) 3. Rather. (Jamie son.) ǎs'-ti-ûne, s . [ASTRION.) A certain kind of precious stone. "Ther is saphire and uniune, Carbuncle and astiune." Warton: Hist. Eng . Poetry , i. 11. (S. in Boucher .) a-stom-a-tạ, s. pl . [Gr. a, priv., and στόμα (stoma), gen it. στόματος ( stomatos ) = mouth.] Zoology: An order of Infusoria, containing those animalcules which have no true or determinate mouth. It contains the families Astacidse, Dinobryidæ, Peridinidæ, and Opalinidæ.