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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

A genus of echinoderms.

Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.

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.

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

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

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

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.

A constellation. A small cluster of stars.

of or pertaining to asterisms or constellations

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

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

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.

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

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

One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.

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

To escape.

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

Weakness of sight.

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.

an abnormal loss of strength.

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

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.

A person affected with asthma.

Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient.

Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.

A defect of the eye or of a lens, in consequence of which the rays derived from one point are not brought to a single focal point, thus causing imperfect images or indistinctness of vision.

To assent.

Stipulation; agreement.

Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.

Not possessing a mouth.

To stun; to astonish; to stupefy.

Stunned; astonished. See Astony.

To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow.