Aspiration.

One who aspires.

A white crystalline compound, acetyl salicylic acid (CH3.CO.O.C6H4.CO.OH) widely used as a drug for relief of pain and alleviation of fever. It has analgesic, antipyretic, and antiinflammatory properties, and is one of a class of agents called non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). The name was originally a trade name, but has become the preferred name for the substance. It is actually a prodrug, liberating salicylic acid, the ultimate pharmacologically active agent, in the intestines. It is more effective when taken orally than is salicylic acid, because it dissolves more readily.

That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind.

Pertaining to, or like, an asp.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

Sprawling.

Squatting.

With the eye directed to one side; not in the straight line of vision; obliquely; awry, so as to see distortedly; as, to look asquint.

A quadruped of the genus Equus (Equus 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.

Same as Asafetida.

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.

Capable of being assailed.

One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer.

One who assails.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.

The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.

Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants. A native or natives of Assam.

The American flying squirrel (Pteromys volucella).

To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.

To assassinate.

An assassination, murder, or murderous assault.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

An assassin.

Murderous.

Roasting.

To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.

Capable of being assaulted.

sexually abused; -- a euphemism.

One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant.

making an assault.

To attempt, try, or endeavor.

That may be assayed.

One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver.

The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.

A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.

Assurance; certainty.

To make sure or safe; to assure.

An obtaining or acquiring.

Same as Assagai.

A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.

Resemblance; likeness; appearance.

To liken; to compare.

brought together into a group or crowd.

One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled.

A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.

an artificial computer language with mnemonic codes representing the basic machine-language instructions of a computer, which can be interpreted by an assembler to produce a computer program in machine language. Also informally referred to as assembler.

A line of machinery, tools, and workers on which objects to be manufactured are moved from one post to the next, where different workers perform different steps in the manufacturing process; called also production line. The objects to be manufactured usually move on a form of conveyor belt, which does not necessarily move only in a straight line, but may continue around the factory area for some distance.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling an assembly line; as, an assembly-line process; also used metaphorically, as an assembly-line educational system.

A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.

a female member of a legislative body called an assembly.

The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence.

Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.

An obsequious; a flatterer.

Flattering; obsequious.

One who assents.

Assenting.

Giving or implying assent.

Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying.

To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

capable of being affirmed or asserted.

stated as a fact.

One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.

declaring.

The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.

One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter.

Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.

Affirming; maintaining.

To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.

Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property.

One who is assessed.

A sitting beside or near.

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.

Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors.

The office or function of an assessor.

Any article or separable part of one's assets.

Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.

See Asseverate.

To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.

The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.

Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.

Asseverative.

To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch.

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

Unremitting; assiduous.

Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.

Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.

A siege.

A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract.

A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.

The quality of being assignable.

Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.

One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.

A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.

One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.

The quality of being assimilable.

That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.

To become similar or like something else.

tending to or characterized by or causing assimilation (being absorbed into or incorporated).

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.

Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.

Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.

To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.

Assimilation.

See Asinego.

A stupid fellow.

Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.

To lend aid; to help.

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.

One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.

In a manner to give aid.