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1. n. A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed.
2. n. A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt.
3. n. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
4. n. a pompous fool
5. n. hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse
6. n. slang for sexual intercourse
7. 1. (Zoöl.) A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become the type of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wild asses which are swift-footed. 2. A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt. Shak. Asses' Bridge. Etym: [L. pons asinorum.] The fifth proposition of the first book of Euclid, "The angles at the base of an isosceles triangle are equal to one another." [Sportive] "A schoolboy, stammering out his Asses' Bridge." F. Harrison. -- To make an ass of one's self, to do or say something very foolish or absurd.
8. A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than thehorse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame ordomestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become thetype of obstinacy and stupidity. There are several species of wildasses which are swift-footed.
9. n:100 n. a pompous fool n. hardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse