ASELLI

, two fixed stars of the fourth magnitude, in the constellation Cancer.

ASH-Wednesday, the first day of Lent, supposed to have been so called from a custom in the church, of sprinkling ashes that day on the heads of penitents then admitted to penance.

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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.

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