Aslant

or adv. On a slant; on one side; obliquely; not perpendicularly. "There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shews his hoar leaves in the gla y stream."-Shaks. Asleep', adv. and a. In, or to sleep; sleeping; at rest. "How many you sands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep ! O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee!"-Skaks. --Figuratively, it is used for dead. Worcester. ( Naut . ) Applied to the state of the sails when the wind is just strong enough to fill without shaking them. Aslope', adv . and a . On slope; with leaning or inclination; obliquely; with declivity or descent. "Set them not upright, but aslope , a reasonable depth under the ground."- Bacon . Asmannshausen, a village on the banks of the Rhine, below Rüdesheim, in Na au, celebrated for the excellent wine produced on hills of blue slate in its vicinity. The red kind of A. wine is the more valuable; its color is peculiar. It retains its value only 3 or 4 years; after which it becomes worse every year, and precipitates the whole of its red coloring matter. It is difficult, but not impo ible to transport it acro the Atlantic.