Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A'SIA
A'SIA, n.
One of the four quarters of the globe. [A name originally given to Asia Minor or some part of it; perhaps from the Asses, Ases or Osses, about Mount Taurus. Mallet, North. Ant. i. 60. Plin. 6. 17.]
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