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.

An assistant; a helper.

Helpful.

Lending aid, helping.

Without aid or help.

A assister.

See Assythment.

To assess; to value; to rate.

An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.

A juror.

To make or keep sober.

The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness.

Capable of being associated or joined.

Associability.

A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.

an associate degree conferred for successful studies in applied science.

a college degree granted for successful completion of a two-year course of study in arts or general topics.

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined.

The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things.

Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.

The doctrine or theory held by associationists.

Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty.

An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme.

To soil; to stain.

A soiling; defilement.

To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court.

Resemblance of sound.

Having a resemblance of sounds.

Assonant.

To correspond in sound.

To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place.

Selected; culled.

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

Dazed; foolish; infatuated.

To abate or subside.

Mitigation; abatement.

One who, or that which, assuages.

Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.

To bring into subjection.

The act of accustoming, or the state of being accustomed; habituation.

Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.

That may be assumed.

By way of assumption.

To be arrogant or pretentious; to claim more than is due.

Supposed.

By assumption.

A patch; an addition; a piece put on.

One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes.

Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous.

A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied. An action to recover damages for a breach or nonperformance of a contract or promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking.

That which is assumed; an assumption.

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.

Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims.

an ancient Assyrian city.

The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence.

One whose life or property is insured.

Certainly; indubitably.

The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

Act of rising.

Ascending rising obliquely; curving upward.

That assures; tending to assure; giving confidence.

See Assuage.

Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian arch/ology.

The science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient Assyria.

Indemnification for injury; satisfaction.

the family including the crayfish.

A genus of crustaceans, containing the crawfish of fresh-water lobster of Europe, and allied species of western North America. See Crawfish.

The capital city of Kazakhstan. Population (2000) = 280,200.

Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller.

Same as Astert.

A genus of bivalve mollusks, common on the coasts of America and Europe.

Estate; state.

Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.

In an astatic manner.

The state of being astatic.

To render astatic.

A thick liquid residuum obtained in the distillation of Russian petroleum, much used as fuel.