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AS'KELON [Heb. a balance.] A city in the land of 
Canaan. 
AS'KER, f. [from ajk.~\ A petitioner; an enquirer.— 
Every ajker being fatisfied, we may conclude, that all their 
conceptions of being in a place are the fame. Digby. 
AS'KER-MO'KREM, a town of Afia, on the eaftern 
bank of the Tigris, in the Arabian Irak; called alfo Ser- 
menrai. 
AS'KERON,a noted village, five miles from Doncafter, 
and feven from Pontefraff, famous for a fulphur fpring, 
which is now inclofed, and falls into a fine bafon. The 
virtues of the waters were firft difcovered by farriers and 
farmers, who drove their horfes and cattle thither in tiie 
mod ftubborn maladies ; and thefe waters are now famous 
for curing the mod inveterate ftrumous fores by bathing. 
Near this place is Conifborough-cafile, called in Britifit 
Car Conan , fituate on a rock, where Matthew of Weftmin- 
fter fays, that Aurelius Amb.rolius, a Britifit prince, van- 
quifited Hengifi, the Saxon general, and took him prifoner; 
where, in revenge o( his barbarous murder of the Britifit 
nobility in cold blood, itear Stonehenge in Wiltfliire, he 
cut off his head. Before the gate is an agger, faid to be 
the burying-place of Hengifi. 
ASKERSUND', a town of Sweden, in the province of 
Nericia, on the Wetter Sea, five miles from Orebro. 
ASKEW', adv. Afide; with contempt: 
For when ye mildly look with lovely hue, 
Then is nty foul with life and love infpir’d : 
But when ye lowre, or look on me ajkcw, 
Then do I die. Spenfcr. 
ASKEY'TON, a town of the county of Limeric, in 
Ireland, feated on the river Deel, near its junction with 
the Shannon; famous for its caftle built by the earl of 
Defmond, and for one of the mod: beautiful and perfect 
abbeys in Ireland. Diftance from Dublin, uojr miles. 
ASK'RIG, a town in the north riding of Yorkfhire. It 
lias a weekly market on Tuefday : forty miles north-weft 
of Boroughbridge, and 243 north of London. 
AS'LA, a river of Spain on the northern coaft, which 
falls into the fea in the bay of Bifcay, where it forms a 
good harbour, to the eaft of cape Pinas. 
To ASLA'KE, v. a. [from Jlack .] To remit; to miti¬ 
gate; to ftacken. Obfolete. 
But this continual, cruel, civil war, 
No fkill can ftint, nor reafon can ajlake. Spenfer. 
ASLA'NI ,f; a filver coin, worth from 115 to 120 afpers. 
ASLA'NT, adv. Obliquely; not perpendicularly: 
He fell ; the fliaft 
Drove through his neck ajlant ; lie fpurns the ground, 
And the foul ilfues through the weazon’s wound. Dryden. 
ASLAPATH', a town of Afia, in Armenia, near Nac- 
fchivan, on the banks of the Aras. 
ASLEE P, adv. Sleeping; at reft: to fieep.—There 
is no difference between a perfon ajlecp , and in an apo¬ 
plexy, but that the one can be awaked, and the other 
cannot. Arbuthnot. 
How many thoulands of my pooreft fubjeiSts 
Are at this hour ajlcepl O gentle deep, 
Nature’sfoft nurfe, how have i frighted thee! Shakefpeare. 
AS'LING, or Jes'senize, a town of Germany, in Car- 
niola, fixteen miles foutli-fouth-weft of Clagenfurt. 
ASLO'PE, adv. With declivity; obliquely; not per¬ 
pendicularly.—Set them not upright, but ajlope, a rea¬ 
sonable depth under the ground. Bacon . 
ASM ATOG'RAPHER, f. [Gr. of uo-pci, a fong, and 
yfciQu, to write.] A compofer of fongs. 
/\S'MER, a fmall town of Hindcoftan, in the ftates of 
the Mogul, (outh-weft of Agra, and in the extremity of 
the province of Bando ; called alfo Afmer. 
ASMATO'GRAPHY,/. The art of compofing fongs. 
ASMODE'US, an evil lpirit. Tob. iii. 8. 
A S O 
ASMONE'US, or Assamonetjs, the father of Simon, 
and chief of tiie Afmoneans, a family that reigned over 
the jews during 126 years, under the title of Maccabees. 
AS'NA, or Es'neh, a town of Upper Egypt, fituated 
l'o near the cataracts of the Nile, that they may be dif- 
tinftly heard from thence. It contains feveral monu¬ 
ments of antiquity ; and the inhabitants are rich in corn 
and cattie. They trade into Lower Egypt and Nubia, by 
means of the Nile, and alfo by the caravans that pafs over 
the defert. The inhabitants are moftly Arabs, except 
about 200 Copts, the ancient inhabitants. They are un¬ 
der the government of the Turks, who have a cadi, and 
the Arabs have two fheiks of their own nation : diftant 
304. miles fouth of Cairo. Lat. 25. o. N. Ion. 40. 29. E. 
Ferro.—See the article Egypt, vol. vi. p. 352. 
AS'NEN, a lake of Sweden, in the province of Sino- 
land. Lat. 56. 36. N. Ion. 14. 48. E. 
ASNAP'PAR [Heb. misforti me.] A man’s name. 
AS'NID, a town ot Afia, in the kingdom of Candahar, 
twenty three leagues north of Salem. 
ASNIE'RES, a town of Fra nee, in the department of 
the Upper Vienne, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
trift of Bellac, ten miles north-weft of Bellac. 
A'SO, a town of Japan, in the province of Simoodfuke. 
ASO LA, a town of Benaco, Italy, fituated on the 
Chiefe ; a frontier-town, with 4000 fouls ; it has a pawn- 
office, and an academy of fciences called DC Rinovati. 
ASO LO, a beautiful and pleafant town of Italy, built 
on a charming hill, near the river Mufone. It is fur- 
rounded with walls and gates, and upon the top of the 
hill (lands a fpacious citadel, which affords a delightful 
profpect. Afolo was a municipal town under the Ro¬ 
mans, and mentioned by Ptolemy and by Pliny. It came 
afterwards under the dominion of the emperors of Ger¬ 
many, wdio caufed it to be governed by vicars of the 
empire; but their oppreffive conduct induced the inha¬ 
bitants to fubjebt themfelves, in 1337, to the republic of 
Venice. Upon the diffolution of the Venetian ftates, it 
became part of Maritime Auftria, but is now included in 
the kingdom of Italy. 
ASO'MATOUS, adj. [from apriv.and eruy.x, a body.] 
Incorporeal, or without a body. 
ASO'NA, a riverof Italy, which rifes in the Apennines, 
and runs into the fea ten miles fouth-eaft of Fermo, in 
the marquifate of Ancona. 
A'SOPH. See Azoph. 
ASO PUS, a river of Phrygia Major, which, together 
with the Lycus, wadies Laodicea. Pliny. —Another of 
Boeotia, which, running from mount Cithaeron, and wa¬ 
tering the territory of Thebes, feparates it from the ter¬ 
ritory of Plataea, and falls with an eaftern courfe into the 
Euripus at Tanagra. On this river Adraftus king of 
Sicyon built a temple to Nemefis, thence called Adrajhia. 
From this river The'bae came to be furnamed Afopidcs. 
Strabo. It is now called Afopo. —A third Afopus, a riverof 
Peloponnefus, which runs by Sicyon, and with a north- 
weft courfe falls into the Sinus Corinthiacus, to the welt 
of Corinth.—A fourth, a fmall river of the Locri Epic- 
nemidii, on the borders of Theffaly, rifingin mount Oeta, 
and falling into the Sinus Maliacus.—A fifth, anciently 
a town of Laconic, on the Sinus Laconicus, with a 
port in a peninfula, between Bose to the eaft, and the 
mouth of the Eurotas to the weft. The citadel only 
remains handing, now called by the bailors Cajlel Rampano. 
ASO PUS, a Ion of Oceanus and Tethys, three of whofe 
daughters are particularly celebrated, ASgina, Salumis, 
and Ifmene. He was changed into a river by Jupiter, 
whom he defigned to make war againft, becaufe that god 
had'abided his daughter /Egina. 
A'SOR, or H azoe, a town of the tribe of Judah, to 
the fouth-weft, on the borders of Afcalon (Jo/hna) ; as alfo 
Hafor-Hadata, tranfiated by the Seventy Exivn .— 
Another Afor, Afcrus, or Hazor, a town of Galilee ; 
called the capital of all the kingdoms to the north of Pa- 
leftine. 
