the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An ancient name of a gum.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A name for certain drugs, originally used separately with the Latin adjectives dulcis and fetida (fœtida), now joined to them as a prefix. See below. Also spelled assa.
Word Usage
""They cried every day," Agudelo said of her twin daughters, who had been placed in English-asa-second-language classes."