Index of English words, starting with "as"

(1) - Astringent (n.) A medicine or other substance that produces contraction in the soft organic textures, and checks discharges of blood, mucus, etc.
(2) - Astringent (a.) Stern; austere; as, an astringent type of virtue.
(3) - Astringent (a.) Drawing together the tissues; binding; contracting; -- opposed to laxative; as, astringent medicines; a butter and astringent taste; astringent fruit.

(1) - Astringently (adv.) In an astringent manner.