A person who has no
shadow. People from parts of the world where the
sun is vertical at
noon twice a year. (thus
no shadows!! uh oh!) The
plural of the
Latin ascius. Because
Eratosthenes lived near some of the more ascian regions of the word he probably had an easier time calculating the
diameter of the earth by looking at
sunlight at the bottom of
wells (well,
Syene and
Alexandria aren't really ascian but they're getting there . . .)
It can also be used to describe a day that is
too goddammed hot.