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ASOR (Hebr. for " ten "), an instrument " of ten strings " mentioned in the Bible, about which authors are not agreed. The word occurs only three times in the Bible, and has not been traced elsewhere. In Psalm xxxiii. 2 the reference is to " kinnor, nebel and ...

ASIR, a district in western Arabia, lying between 1 7° 30' and 21° N., and 40° 30' and 43° E.; bounded N. by Hcjaz, E. by Nejd, S. by Yemen and \V. by the Red Sea. Like Yemen, it consists of a lowland zone some 20 or 30 m. in width along the coast, and of a mo

ASTORGA, a city of N.W. Spain, in the province of Leon; situated near the right bank of the river Tuerto, and at the junction of the Salamanca-Corunna and Leon-Astorga railways. Pop. (1000) 5573. Astorga was the Roman Asturica Augusta, a provincial capital, an

ASTORIA, a city, port of entry, and the county-seat of Clatsop county, Oregon, U.S.A., on the Columbia river, 8 m. from its mouth. Pop. (1890) 6184; (1900) 8381, of whom 3779 were foreign-born (many being Finns, — a Finnish weekly was established here in 1905)

... t nourished by the blood which flows through them, but by minute vessels, rasa vasorum, distributed in their external, elastic and muscular coats. P.A. US' L.F.A. FIG. 2. — Diagram of the structure of an artery. A, tunica adventitia; E, elastic coat; M, muscul ...