ashy green

& s. A. As adjective: Coloured green, commingled with ash colour. 327 B. As subst. The colour now described. the back of an ashy-green."-Warring ton, in Miscell. and Mag. of Nat . Hist ., Oct., 1852. Ā'-sia (sia as sha), s . [Sw. & Dan. Asien ; Dut. Azie ; Fr. Asie ; Sp., Port., Ital., & Lat. Asia ; Gr. ̓Ασία ( Asia ).] A. Cla ical Mythology: 1. A daughter of Ocean us, mentioned by Hesiod, the first Greek writer who used the term Asia , and then not in a geographical sense. 2. The wife of Pro me the us. B. Geog. [ Asia in this sense is said to be derived from the daughter of Ocean us mentioned above.] *1. Apparently the region east of the Archipelago once ruled over by King Attalus, and extending from Pergamos, in Mysia, to Caria. Hero dot us is the first writer in which this the oldest geographical sense of the word Asia is known to occur. Livy also uses it with the same signification, generally known as Asia Minor. 2. The Roman province of the name, including Phrygia, Mysia, Lydia, and Caria. This is the New Testament sense of the word, ". the dwellers in Me so pot am i a, and in Judæa and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia , Phrygia, and Pamphylia, " -Acts ii. 9, 10. 3. The great continent east of Europe and Africa. When this extended sense was introduced, then the region between the Black Sea, the Archipelago, and the Mediterranean, within which the Roman province of Asia was situated, came to be called in Latin, by way of distinction, Asia Minor (Le er Asia). The first author known to have used the latter term for Asia west of the Taurus was Orosius, in the fifth century, A.D. (See Trench: On the Study of Words , p. 96.) C. Astron.: An asteroid, the sixty-seventh found. It was discovered by Pogson on the 18th of April, 1861. A'-sian (sian = shạn), adj. [Lat. Asius.] Belonging to Asia. 1 "From Asian Taurus, from Imaus stretch'd." Thomson: Seasons; Autumn. A'-si-arch (or sĩ = shí), s. [In Ger. Ast arch; Fr. asiarque; Lat. as i arch us; Greek ἀσιάρχης ( as i arches ).] Under the Romans: The director-general of religious ceremonies in the province of Asia. The expre ion occurs in the Greek Testament, Τινὲς δὲ καὶ τῶν ̓Ασιαρχῶν (Tines de kai ton Asiarchōn), "And certain also of the Asiarchs" (Acts xix. 31). Properly speaking, there was but one Asiarch residing at Ephesus; the others referred to were his subordinates.