ashet, aschet

[Fr. a iette = a plate, a trencher.] A large flat plate on which meat is brought to the table. ( Scotch.) ash-lar, ash'-ler, * a-chěl-or ( Eng .), ais-ler, * āis-lair, * ěst-ler ( Scotch ), s. & a. [O. Fr. aiseler , from a is selle the armpit; Lat. axilla = the armpit.] [AXIL.] A. As substantive: Arch.: Hewn or squared stone used in building, as contradistinguished from that which is rough, as when it came from the ASHLAR. quarry. "J. H." in Boucher's Dict . states that the earliest instance of the use of the word ashler which had been discovered when he wrote, was in connection with the erection of the College of Fothering hay. [See example.] "...the ground of the body and isles be maad within the ende under the ground table-stones with rough stone; and all the remanent of the said body and isles, 1. Aslope, slantwise. ( Babees Book (ed. Furnivall), p. 121.) 2. A-straddle. ( Ibid ., p. 136.) a-shö're (2), adv. [Eng. a = on; shore (1).] 1. To the shore; upon the shore from the sea. Used (a) of a person landing from a ship: "Yet then, when called ashore , he sought The tender peace of rural thought." Words worth: To the Daisy. IMG:content-0795.jpg:[blocks in formation] 2. On the shore, as contradistinguished from being on board a ship or in the sea. "Our position was often ashore."-Hooker: Him a lay an Journals, ch. iii. Ash'-tör-eth, + Ăs-tor-eth, As-tar'-tē )pl. Ash'-tar-ōth). Heb. עַשְׁתֹּרֶת ) Ash toreth ), pl. עַשְׁתָּרוֹת ) Ashtaroth ); Gr. ̓Αστάρτη (Astarte); A yr. Ishtar ; Pers. Istarah ; Gr. ἀστήρ ( aster ) = a star.] [STAR.] A godde worshipped in Phenic i a, Philistia, and elsewhere. She was symbolised by the moon, and also by the planet Venus. The place Asteroth Karnaim (Gen. xiv. 5) means the horned or mooned Astartes, probably from images of that godde set up and worshipped there. She is supposed to be the "Queen of Heaven," mentioned in Jer. vii. 18 and xliv. 17. אֲשֶׁרָה and אֲשִׁירָה ) ǎshérah ), wrongly translated "grove" or "groves" in Judg. vi. 25, 2 Kings xxiii. 4, and various other places, seems to signify an image of Astarte. It is connected with אֶשֶׁר ) esher ) = happine , good fortune, Astarte being the godde of good fortune. She represented the female principle, and was worshipped with impure rites. She is frequently connected with Baal, the corresponding male divinity. [BAAL.] "For Solomon went after Ashtoreth , the godde of the Zidonians."-1 Kings xi. 5.