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Assimilative

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

Assimilatory

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

Assimulate

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

Assish

Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.

Assistance

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

Assistant

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

Assize

To assess; to value; to rate.

Assizer

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

Associability

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

Associate

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

Associate in Arts

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

Associated

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

Associateship

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

Association

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

Associational

Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.

Associationist

One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill.

Associative

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

Associator

An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme.

Assort

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

Assortment

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

Assot

Dazed; foolish; infatuated.

Assuager

One who, or that which, assuages.

Assuasive

Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.

Assuefaction

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

Assuetude

Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.

Assume

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

Assument

A patch; an addition; a piece put on.

Assumer

One who assumes, arrogates, pretends, or supposes.

Assuming

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

Assumpsit

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.

Assumpt

That which is assumed; an assumption.

Assumption

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

Assumptive

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

Assur

an ancient Assyrian city.

Assurance

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

Assure

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

Assured

One whose life or property is insured.

Assuredness

The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.

Assurer

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

Assurgent

Ascending rising obliquely; curving upward.

Assuring

That assures; tending to assure; giving confidence.

Assyrian

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

Assyriological

Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies.

Assyriologist

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

Assyriology

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

Assythment

Indemnification for injury; satisfaction.

Astacura

the family including the crayfish.

Astacus

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

Astana

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

Astarboard

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

Astarte

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

Astatic

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.

Astatki

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

Astay

An anchor is said to be astay, when, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.

Asteism

Genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another.

Astel

An arch, or ceiling, of boards, placed over the men's heads in a mine.

Aster

A genus of herbs with compound white or bluish flowers; starwort; Michaelmas daisy.

Asteraceae

a family of plants with heads composed of many florets, including the aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia.

Asteriated

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

Asteridea Asterioidea

A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal.

Asteridian

Of or pertaining to the Asterioidea. A starfish; one of the Asterioidea.

Asterion

The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto-mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.

Asteriscus

The smaller of the two otoliths found in the inner ear of many fishes.

Asterisk

The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having a special character.

Asterism

A constellation. A small cluster of stars.

asterismal

of or pertaining to asterisms or constellations

Astern

In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

Asternal

Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.

Asteroid

A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

Asteroidal

Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.

Asterolepis

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone.

Asterope

One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.

Asterophyllite

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

Asthenic

Characterized by, or pertaining to, debility; weak; debilitating.

asthenosphere

the lower layer of the earth's crust, below the lithosphere. It is estimated as from fifty to several hundred miles thick. It is less rigid than the lithosphere, but still rigid enough to transmit some transverse seismic waves.

astheny

an abnormal loss of strength.

Astheny Asthenia

Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

Asthma

A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.

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