ASSIGNMENT
ASSI'GNMENT, noun1. An allotting, or an appointment to a particular person or use.2. A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of a lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange.3...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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ASSIGNOR
ASSIGNOR', noun an assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as the assignor of a bill of exchange.
ASSIMILABLE
ASSIM'ILABLE, adjective That may be assimilated.
ASSIMILATE
ASSIM'ILATE, verb transitive [Latin assimilo, of ad and similis, like. See Similar.]1. To bring to a likeness; to cause to resemble.2. To convert into a like substance; as, food...
ASSIMILATED
ASSIM'ILATED, participle passive Brought to a likeness; changed into a like substance.
ASSIMILATING
ASSIM'ILATING, participle present tense Causing to resemble; converting into a like substance.
ASSIMILATION
ASSIMILA'TION, noun1. The act of bringing to a resemblance.2. The act or process by which bodies convert other bodies into their own nature and substance; as, flame assimilates ...
ASSIMILATIVE
ASSIM'ILATIVE, adjective having power of converting to a likeness, or to a like substance.
ASSIMULATE
ASSIM'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin assimulo.] To feign. [Not used. See simulate.]
ASSIMULATION
ASSIMULA'TION, noun A counterfeiting. [Not used. See Simulation.]
ASSIST
ASSIST', verb transitive [Latin assisto, of ad and sisto, to stand up; English, to stand by.]To help; to aid; to succor; to give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in ...
ASSISTANCE
ASSIST'ANCE, noun Help; aid; furtherance; succor; a contribution of support in bodily strength or other means.
ASSISTANT
ASSIST'ANT, adjective Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.ASSIST'ANT, noun One who aids, or who contributes his strength or other means to further the designs of welfare ...
ASSISTED
ASSIST'ED, participle passive Helped; aided.
ASSISTER
ASSIST'ER, noun One that lends aid.
ASSISTING
ASSIST'ING, participle present tense Helping; aiding; supporting with strength or means.
ASSISTLESS
ASSIST'LESS, adjective Without aid or help.
ASSIZE
ASSI'ZE,ASSI'ZED, participle passive Regulated in weight, measure or price, by an assize or ordinance.
ASSIZED
ASSI'ZED, pp. Regulated in weight, measure or price, by an assize or ordinance.
ASSIZER
ASSI'ZER, noun An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures.
ASSIZES
ASSI'ZES, noun [Latin assideo, to sit by, of ad and sedeo, to sit.]1. Originally, an assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place...
ASSIZOR
ASSI'ZOR, noun In Scotland, a juror.
ASSOBER
ASSO'BER, verb transitive [See Sober.] To keep under. [Not used.]
ASSOCIABILITY
ASSOCIABIL'ITY, noun The quality of being capable of association; the quality of suffering some change by sympathy, or of being affected by the affections of another part of the...
ASSOCIABLE
ASSO'CIABLE, adjective assoshable. [See Associate.]1. That may be joined to or associated.2. In a medical sense, liable to be affected by sympathy, or to receive from other part...
ASSOCIATE
ASSO'CIATE, verb transitive assoshate. [Latin associo, of ad and socio, to join.]1. To join in company, as a friend, companion, partner or confederate; as, to associate others w...
ASSOCIATED
ASSO'CIATED, participle passive United in company or in interest; joined.