AS-CETI-CISM, n. The state of an ascetic. Warburton. ASCIAN, n. [L. ascü.] A person, who, at certain times of the year, has no shadow at noon. ASCI-TANS, n. [Gr. ασκος.] A sect or branch of Montanists, who appeared in the second century. AS-CITES, n. [Gr. ασκος.] A dropsy, or tense, elastic swelling of the belly, with Huctuation, from a collection of water. AS-CITIE, a. Belonging to an ascites; dropsical; AS-CI-TITIOUS, a. [L. ascitus.] Additional; added; sup- AS-CRIBE, v. t. [L. ascribo.] 1. To attribute, impute, or set to, as to a cause; to assign, as effect to a cause. 2. To attribute, as a quality; to consider or alledge to belong. AS-CRIBED, (as-kribd') pp. Attributed or imputed; considered or alledged as belonging. AS-CRIBING, ppr. Attributing; imputing; alledging to belong. AS-CRIPTION, n. The act of ascribing, imputing or affirming to belong. AS-CRIP-TITIOUS, a. That is ascribed. ASH, n. [Sax. esc; Dan. ask.] 1. A well known tree, of which there are many species. 2 The wood of the ash tree. ASH, 4. Pertaining to or like the ash; made of ash. ↑A-SHAME', v. t. To shame. A-SHAM ED, (a-shamd1) a. Affected by shame; confused by a consciousness of guilt or of inferiority; by the mortification of pride; by failure or disappointment. A-SHAMED-LY, adv. Bashfully. A-SHELF, adv. On a shelf or rock. Massinger. ASH-COL/ORED, a. Of a color between brown and gray. ASH'EN, a. Pertaining to ash; made of ash. ASHES, n. plu. without the singular number. [Sax. asca.] ASKING, ppr. 1. Requesting; petitioning; interrogating, inquiring. 2. Silently expressing request or desire. †A-SLAKE', v. t. [Sax. aslacian.] To remit; to slacken Spenser. AS-LAINI, n. A silver coin. A-SLANT, a. or adv. On one side; obliquely; not perpendicularly, or with a right angle. A-SLEEP, , a. or adv. 1. Sleeping; in a state of sleep; at rest. 2. To a state of sleep; as, to fall asleep. 3. Dead; in a state of death. 4. To death. A-SLOPE', a. or adv. With leaning or inclination; obliquely; with declivity or descent, as a hill. † A-SLUGI, adv. In a sluggish manner. Fotherby. AS-MO-NEAN, a. Pertaining to Asmoneus. AS-MO-NE/AN, n. One of the family of Asmoneus. †A-SO MA-TOUS, a. [Gr. a and σωμα.] Without a mate rial body; incorporeal. ASP. See ASPEN. ASP, or ASPIC, n. [L. aspis; Gr. ασπις.] A small, poison ous serpent of Egypt. AS-PALA-THUS, n. A plant. AS-PARA-GIN, n. White, transparent crystals of a peculiar vegetable principle. AS-PARA-GUS, n. [L. and Gr.] Sparagus; sperage; vulgarly, sparrow-grass; a genus of plants ASPECT, n. [L. aspectus.] 1. Look; view; appearance to the eye or the mind. 2. Countenance; look, or particular appearance of the face. 3. View; sight; act of seeing. 4. Position or situation with regard to seeing, or that position which enables one to look in a particular direction.-5. In astronomy, the situation of one planet with respect to another. † AS-PECT, v. t. To behold. Temple. AS-PECT A-BLE, a. That may be seen. AS-PECTED, a. Having an aspect. Ben Jonson. 1. The earthy particles of combustible substances remain-AS-PECTION, n. The act of viewing. Brown. ing after combustion. 2. The remains of the human body when burnt. Hence, figuratively, a dead body or corpse. ASH-FIRE, n. A low fire used in chemical operations. ASH-HOLE, n. A repository for ashes; the lower part of a furnace. ASHLAR, n. Common or free stones, as they come from the quarry. ASH'LER-ING, n. Quartering for lathing to, in garrets. A-SHORE', adv. 1. On shore; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore. 2. On land, opposed to aboard. 3. On the ground. ASH-TUB, n. A tub to receive ashes. ASH-WEDNESDAY, (ash-wenz'de) n. The first day of Lent; supposed to be so called from a custom of sprinkling ashes on the head. ASH-WEED, n. A plant, the small, wild angelica, goutwort, goats-foot, or herb-gerard. ASH/Y, a. Belonging to ashes; ash-colored; pale; inclining to a whitish gray. Shak. ASHY-PALE, a. Pale as ashes. Shak. ASIAN, a. Pertaining to Asia. ASIARCH, n. A chief or pontiff of Asia; one who had the superintendence of the public games. A-SIATIC, a. Belonging to Asia. A-SIATI-CISM, n. Imitation of the Asiatic manner. AS-IN-EGO, n. [Sp. asnico.] A foolish fellow. ASI-NINE, rarely ASI-NA-RY, a. [L. asinus.] Belonging to the ass; having the qualities of the ass. ASK, v. t. [Sax. ascian, acsian, or azian.] 1. To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; with of before the person to whom the request is made. 2. To require, expect or claim. 3. To interrogate, or inquire; to put a question, with a view to an answer. 4. To require, or make claim. 5. To claim, require or demand, as the price or value of a commodity; to set a price. 6. To invite. ASP/EN, or ASP, n. [D. esp; G. aspe, aspe; Sax. espe. A species of the poplar, so called from the trembling of its leaves, which move with the slightest impulse of the air. ASP/EN, a. Pertaining to the aspen, or resembling it; made of aspen wood. ASPER, a. [L.) Rough; rugged. [Little used.] accent. AS/PER, n. A Turkish coin. AS/PE-RATE, v. t. [L. aspero.] To make rough or uneven. Boyle. AS-PE-RATION, n. A making rough. AS-PER-GOIRE, n. [Fr. aspersoir.] A holy-water-sprinkle. Warton. AS-PER-I-FO/LI-ATE, a. [L. asper and folium.] Having rough leaves. AS-PER-I-FO/LI-OUS, a. Having leaves rough to the touch. AS-PERI-TY, n. [L. asperitas.] 1. Roughness of surface; unevenness; opposed to smoothness. 2. Roughness of sound; harshness of pronunciation. 3. Roughness to the taste; sourness. 4. Roughness or ruggedness of temper; moroseness; sourness; crabbedness. 5. Sharpness. † AS'PER-LY, or AS'PRÉ-LY, adv. Roughly; sharply. AS-PER-NATION, n. [L. aspernatio.] Neglect; disregard Dict. ASPER-OUS, a. [L. asper, rough.] Rough; uneven. Boyle. AS-PERSE, (as-pers') v. t. [L. aspergo, aspersus.] 1 To bespatter with foul reports or false and injurious charges; to tarnish in point of reputation, or good name; to slander or calumniate. 2. To cast upon. AS-PERS/ER, n. One that asperses, or vilifies another. AS-PERSION, n. A sprinkling. 2. The spreading of ca lumnious reports or charges. AS-PHALT', or AS-PHALTUM, n. [Gr. ασφαλτος.] Bitu men Judaicum, Jew's pitch; a smooth, hard, brittle, black or brown substance, which breaks with a polish, melts easily when heated, and, when pure, burns without leaving any ashes. AS-PHALTIC, a. Pertaining to asphalt, or containing it bituminous. Milton. AS-PHALTITE, a. Pertaining to or containing asphalt. AS/PHO-DEL, n. [L and Gr.] King's-spear; a genus of || AS-SAULT', v. t. 1. To attack or fall upon by violence, liliaceous plants, cultivated for the beauty of their owers. AS-PHU'REL-ATES, n. [Gr. a and σφυρα.] A series of semimetallic fossils. or with a hostile intention. 2. To invade or fall on with force. 3. To attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures, with a view to shake, impair, or overthrow. AS-SAULT'A-BLE, a. That may be assaulted. Williams. AS-SAULTED, pp Attacked with force, arms, violence, or hostile views. ASSAULTER, n. One who assaults, or violently attacks. AS-SAULTING, ppr. Attacking with force, or with hostile AS-PHYX/Y, n. [Gr. ασφυξια.] A temporary suspension of the motion of the heart and arteries; swooning; fainting. *ASPIC, n. 1. The asp, which see. 2. A piece of ordnance, carrying a twelve pound shot. ASPIC, n. A species of lavender, a plant. AS-PIRANT, n. One who aspires, breathes after, or seeks with eagerness. AS/PI-RATE, v. t. [L. aspiro.] To pronounce with a breathing, or full emission of breath. We aspirate the words horse and house. AS'PI-RATE, v. i. To be uttered with a strong breathing; us, the letter h aspirates. Dryden. AS/PI-RATE, n. A letter marked with an asper, or note of breathing; a mark of aspiration, as the Greek accent'. AS/PI-RATE, u. Pronounced with a full breath. AS PI-RA-TED, pp. Uttered with a strong emission of breath. AS/PI-RA-TING, ppr. Pronouncing with a full breath. AS-PI-RA/TION, n. 1. The pronunciation of a letter with a full emission of biath. 2. A breathing after; an ardent wish or desire. 3. The act of aspiring, or of ardently desiring what is noble or spiritual. AS-PIRE, v. i. [L. aspiro.] 1. To desire with eagerness; to pant after an object. 2. To aim at something elevated. Pope. † AS-PIRE MENT, n. The act of aspiring. Brewer. AS-PIR'ER, n. One who aspires; one who aims to rise. AS-PIRING, ppr. Desiring eagerly; aiming at something noble, great, or spiritual. measures. AS-SAY', n. [Fr. essai; Sp. ensayo.] 1. The trial of the goodness, purity, weight, value, &c. of metals or metallic substances.-2. In law, an examination of weights and measures by the standard. 3. Examination; trial; effort; first entrance upon any business; attempt. 4. Value; great purity. Obs. AS-SAY, v. t. 1. To try or prove, by examination or experiment, the quantity and purity of metallic substances. 2. To apply to the touchstone. Milton. AS-SAYI, v. i. To attempt, try, or endeavor. AS-SAY-BAL-ANCE, n. A balance for the trial of the weight and purity of metals. AS-SAY'ED, (as-sāde') pp. Examined; tested; proved by experiment. AS-SAYER, n. One who examines metals to find their quantity and purity. An officer of the mint, whose business is to try the weight and purity of metals. AS-SAYING, ppr. Trying by some standard; examining by experiment, as metals; proving; attempting. AS-SAY-MAS-TER, n. An assayer; an officer appointed to try the weight and fineness of the precious metals. AS-SEC-TATION, n. [L. assectatio.] Attendance, or waiting upon. Dict. AS-PIRING, a. Ambitious; animated with an ardent de- † ASSE-CLE, n. [L. assecla.] A dependent; a follower. sire of power, importance, or excellence. AS-PIRING, n. 1. Ambition; eager desire of something creat. 2. Points; stops. [Not used.] AS-POR-TA-TION, [L. asportatio.] A carrying away. In law, the felonious removal of goods. A SQUINT', adv. [D. schuinte.] 1. To the corner or angle of the eye; obliquely; towards one side. 2. Not with regard, or due notice. ASS, n. [W. asyn; Ir. asan; L. asinus.] 1. A quadruped of the equine genus. 2. A dull, heavy, stupid fellow; a dolt. AS-SAT. [It.] A term in music; added to a word signifying slow, it denotes a little quicker; and to a word signifying quick, it denotes a little slower. AS-SAIL, v. t. [Fr. assaillir.] 1. To leap or fall upon by violence; to assault; to attack suddenly. 2. To invade or attack, in a hostile manner. 3. To attack with arguments, censure, abuse, or criticism. AS-SAIL'A-BLE, a. That may be assailed, attacked, or invaded. AS-SAIL'ANT, n. [Fr.] One who assails, attacks, or as saults. AS-SAIL/ANT, a. Assaulting; attacking; invading with violence. AS-SAIL/ED, (as-sald') pp. Assaulted; invaded; attacked with violence. AS-SAIL/ER, n. One who assails. tacking with violence. AS/SA-RON, n. A Hebrew measure of five pints. AS-SÄRT', n. [old Fr. assarter.] 1. In ancient laws, the offense of grubbing up trees, and thus destroying thickets or coverts of a forest. 2. A tree plucked up by the roots; also, a piece of land cleared. Ash. AS-SART, vt. To grub up trees; to commit an assart. AS-SAS'SIN, n. One who kills, or attempts to kill, by sur prise or secret assault. AS-SASSIN, v. t. To murder. Stillingflect. AS-SASSIN-ATE, v. t. 1. To kill, or attempt to kill, by surprise or secret assault; to murder by sudden violence. 2. To waylay; to take by treachery. ASSASSIN-ATE, n. A murder or murderer. AS-SASSIN-A-TED, pp. Murdered by surprise, or secret assault. AS-SAS-SIN-A TION, n. The act of killing or murdering, by surprise or secret assault; murder by violence AS-SASSIN-A-TOR, n. An assassin, which see. † AS-SASSI-NOUS, a. Murderous. AS-SASSINS, n. In Syria, a tribe or clan called Ismaelians, Batanists, or Batenians. ↑AS-SA TIÓN, n. [Fr.] A roasting. AS-SAULT', n. [Fr. assault, now assaut.] 1. An attack, or violent onset. 2. An attack by hostile words or measures.-3. In law, an unlawful setting upon one's person; an attempt or offer to beat another, without touching his person. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery. Sheldon. AS-SE-CURANCE, n. Assurance. Sheldon. AS-SE-CU-RATION, n. Assurance; a making secure AS-SE-CORE, v. t. To secure. Bullokar. AS-SE-CUTION, n. [L. assequor.] An obtaining or acquir ing. Ayliffe. A'S SEM BLAGE, n. [Fr.] 1. A collection of individuals, or of particular things; the state of being assembled. 2. Rarely, the act of assembling. † AS-SEMBLANCE, n. Representation; an assembling. AS-SEMBLE, v. t. [Fr. assembler.] To collect a number of individuals or particulars into one place, or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. AS-SEMBLE, v. i. To meet or come together; to convene, as a number of individuals. AS-SEMBLED, pp. Collected into a body; congregated. AS-SEMBLER, n. One who assembles. AS-SEMBLING, ppr. Coming together; collecting into one place. AS-SEMBLING, n. A collection or meeting together Heb. x. AS-SEMBLY, n. [Sp. asamblea; It. assemblea; Fr. assemblée.] 1. A company or collection of individuals in the same place; usually for the same purpose. 2. A congregation or religious society convened. 3. In some of the United States, the legislature. 4. A collection of persons for amusement. 5. A convocation, convention, or council of ministers and ruling elders delegated from each presbytery.-6. In armies, the second beating of the drum before a march, when the soldiers strike their tents. 7. An assemblage. [Not in use.] AS-SEMBLY-ROOM, n. A room in which persons assem ble. AS-SENT', n. [L. assensus.] 1. The act of the mind in admitting, or agreeing to, the truth of a proposition. 2 Consent; agreement to a proposal, respecting some right or interest. 3. Accord; agreement. AS-SENT', v.i. To admit as true; to agree, yield, or concede, or rather to express an agreement of the mind to what is alledged, or proposed. AS-SEN-TATION, n. [L. assentatio.] Compliance with the opinion of another, from flattery or dissimulation. AS-SEN-TATOR, n. A flatterer. AS-SEN-TA-TOʻRI-LY, adv. With adulation. AS-SENT ER, n. One who assents, agrees to, or admits AS-SENTING, ppr. Agreeing to, or admitting as true; yielding to. AS-SENTING-LY, adv. In a manner to express assent'; by agreement. AS-SENTIMENT, n. Assent; agreement. Brown. [Rarety used.] AS-SERT', v. t. [L. assero, assertum.] 1. To affirm positively; to declare with assurance; to aver. 2. To maintain or defend by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to. AS-SERT'ED, pp. Affirmed positively; maintained; vindi cated. AS-SERTING, ppr. Declaring with confidence; maintain ing; defending. AS-SER'TION, n. 1. The act of asserting; the maintaining AS-SERTIVE, a. Positive; affirming confidently. of a claim. 2. Positive declaration or averment; affirma- || AS-SIMI-LATE, v. i. 1. To become similar. 2. To be tion; position advanced. AS-SERTIVE-LY, adv. Affirmatively. Bedell. supporter, or vindicator. AS-SERTO RY, a. Affirming; maintaining. †AS-SERVE, v. t. [L. asservio.] To serve. Dict. AS-SESS', v. t. [Fr. asseoir.] 1. To set, fix, or charge, a certain sum upon one, as a tax. 2. To value; to fix the value of property, for the purpose of being taxed. 3. To set, fix, or ascertain. AS-SESS, n. Assessment. AS-SESS/A-BLE, a. That may be assessed. AS-SESSED, (as-sest') pp. Charged with a certain sum ; valued; set; fixed; ascertained. AS-SESSING, ppr. Charging with a sum; valuing; fixing; ascertaining. AS-SESSION n. A sitting down by a person. AS-SESSION-A-RY, a. Pertaining to assessors. AS-SESSMENT, n. 1. A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation. 2. A tax, or specific sum charged on the person or property. 3. The act of assessing; the act of determining the amount of damages by a jury. AS-SESSOR, n. 1. One appointed to assess the person or property. 2. An inferior officer of justice, who sits to assist the judge. 3. One who sits by another, as next in dignity. AS SETS n. plu. [Fr. assez.] Goods or estate of a deceased person, sufficient to pay the debts of the deceased. AS-SEVER, v.t. [L. assevero.] To affirm or aver AS-SEVER-ATE, positively, or with solemnity. AS-SEV-ER-A'TION, n. Positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration. ASS-HEAD, n. One dull, like the ass; one slow of apprehension; a blockhead. AS-SI-DE ANS, or CHAS-I-DE/ANS, n. A sect of Jews. ASSI-DENT, a. [L. assideo, assidens.] Assident signs, in medicine, are such as usually attend a disease. †AS-SIDÚ-ATE, a. Daily. K. Charles. AS-SI-DOI-TY, n. [L. assiduitas.] 1. Constant or close application to any business or enterprise; diligence. 2. Attention; attentiveness to persons.-Assiduities, in the plural, are services rendered with zeal and constancy. AS-SID U-OUS, a. [L. assiduus.] 1. Constant in application. 2. Attentive; careful; regular in attendance. 3. Performed with constant diligence or attention. AS-SID U-OUS-LY, adv. Diligently; attentively; with earnestness and care; with regular attendance. AS SID U-OUS-NESS, n. Constant or diligent application. ↑ AS SIEGE, v. t. [Fr. assieger.] To besiege. Dict. AS-SI-ENTO, n. [Sp. asiento. A contract or conven tion. AS-SIGN', (as-sine) v. t. [Fr. assigner.] 1. To allot; to appoint or grant by distribution or apportionment. 2. To designate or appoint for a particular purpose. 3. To fix, specify, or designate. 4. To make or set over; to transfer, sell, or convey, by writing. 5. To alledge or show in particular.-6. In law, to show or set forth with particularity. AS-SIGN, (as-sine) n. A person to whom property or an interest is or may be transferred. AS-SIGN/A-BLE, (as-sine/a-bl) a. 1. That may be allotted, appointed, or assigned. 2. That may be transferred by writing. 3. That may be specified, shown with precision, or designated. ASSIG-NAT, n. A public note or bill in France; paper currency. Burke. AS-SIG-NATION, n. 1. An appointment of time and place for meeting; used chiefly of love-meetings. 2. A making over by transfer of title. 3. In Russia, a public note, or bank bill; paper currency. AS-SIGNED, (as-sind') pp. Appointed; allotted; made over; shown or designated. AS-SIGN-EE, (as-se-ne') n. A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed to do some act, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property. AS-SIGN'ER, (as-si'ner) n. One who assigns, or appoints. AS-SIGNING, ppr. Allotting; appointing; transferring; showing specially. AS-SIGNMENT, (as-sine/ment) n. 1. An allotting, or an appointment to a particular person or use. 2. A transfer of title or interest by writing. 3. The writing by which an interest is transferred. 4. The appointment or designation of causes or actions in court, for trial on particular days. 5. In law the conveyance of the whole interest which a man has in an estate, usually for life or years. AS-SIGN-OR, (as-se-nor) n. An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest. AS-SIMI-LA-BLE, a. That may be assimilated. AS-SIM-I-LATE, v. t. [L. assimilo.] 1. To bring to a likeness; to cause to resemble. 2. To convert into a like substance. converted into a like substance. AS-SIMI-LA-TED, pp. Brought to a likeness; changed into a like substance. † AS-SIM'I-LATE-NESS, n. Likeness. Dict. AS-SIMI-LA-TING, ppr. Causing to resemble; converting into a like substance. AS-SIM-I-LATION, n. 1. 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-SIMI-LA-TIVE, a. Having power of converting to a likeness, or to a like substance. †AS-SIM U-LATE, v. t. [L. assimulo.] To feign. AS-SIM-U-LATION, n. A counterfeiting. See SIMULA AS-SIST', v. i. To lend aid. ASSISTANCE, n. Help; aid; furtherance succor; a contribution of support. AS-SISTANT, 4. Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. AS-SISTANT, n. One who aids, or who contributes his strength, or other means, to further the designs or welfare of another; an auxiliary. † AS-SISTANT-LY, adv. So as to assist. Sternhold. AS-SISTED, pp. Helped; aided. AS-SISTER, n. One that lends aid. AS-SISTING, ppr. Helping; aiding; supporting with strength or means. AS-SISTLESS, a. Without aid or help. Pope. AS-SIZE, or AS-SIZES, n. [Fr. assises, and sometimes so written in English.] 1. Originally, an assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, for public business. 2. A court in England, held in every county by special commission to one of the judge, who is called a justice of the assize, and empowered to take assizes, that is, the verdict of a jury called the assize. 3. A jury. 4. A writ. 5. A particular species of rents. 6. The time or place of holding the court of assize. 7 In a more general sense, any court of justice. 8. A statute of regulation; an ordinance regulating the weight, measure, and price of articles sold in market; and hence the word came to signify the weight, measure, or price itself This word is, in a certain sense, now corrupted into size, which see. AS-SIZE', v. t. To fix the weight, measure, or price of commodities, by an ordinance or regulation of authority. AS-SIZED, (as-sīzd') pp. Regulated in weight, measure, or price, by an assize or ordinance. AS-SIZER, n. An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures. AS-SIZOR, n. In Scotland, a juror. Bailey. AS-SO-CIA-BIL/I-TY, n. The quality of being capable of association; the quality of suffering some change by sympathy. Darwin. AS-SOCIA-BLE, (as-sō sha-bl) a. 1. That may be joined to or associated. 2. In a medical sense, liable to be affected by sympathy. AS-SOCIATE, (as-sõ/shate) v. t. Fr. associer; L. associo.] 1. To join in company, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate. 2. To unite in the same mass. AS-SOCIATE, v. i. 1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy. 2. To unite in action, or be affected by the action of a different part of the body. AS-SOCIATE, a. Joined in interest, purpose, or office; confederate. AS-SOCIATE, n. 1. A companion; one frequently in company with another; a mate; a fellow. 2. A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league. 3. A companion in a criminal transaction; an accomplice. AS-SO-CIA-TED, pp. United in company or in interest; joined. AS-SOCIATE-SHIP, n. The state or office of an associate Encyc. AS-SOCIA-TING, ppr. Uniting in company or in interest, joining. AS-SOCI-ATION, n. 1. The act of associating; union; connection of persons. 2. Union of persons in a company; a society formed for transacting or carrying on some business for mutual advantage; a partnership; a confederacy 3. Union of things; apposition, as of particles of matter 4. Union or connection of ideas. An association of ideas, is where two or more ideas constantly or naturally follow each other in the mind, so that one almost infallibly produces the other. 5. An exertion or change of some extreme part of the sensory residing in the muscles or organs of sense, in consequence of some antecedent or attendant fibrous contractions. Darwin.-6 In ecclesiastical affairs, a society of the clergy. AS-SO-CIATION-AL, a. Pertaining to an association of || AS-SURED, (ash-shur-ed, or ash-shürd) a. Certain; indu clergymen. AS-SOCIA-TIVE, a. Having the quality of associating, or of being affected by sympathy AS-SO-CIATOR, n. A confederate. Dryden. AS-SOIL, v. t. [Old Fr.; L. absolvo.] To solve; to release; to absolve. Mede † AS-SOIL, v. t. [Fr.souiller.] To soil; to stain. AS'SO-NANCE, n. [Fr.] Resemblance of sounds. In rhetoric and poetry, a resemblance in sound or termination, without making rhyme. ASSO-NANT, a. Having a resemblance of sounds. † AS/SO-NATE, v. i. [L. assono.] To sound like a bell. AS-SORT', v. t. [Fr. assortir.] 1. To separate and distribute into classes. 2. To furnish with all sorts. ASSORT, v. i. To agree; to be in accordance with. AS-SORT ED, pp. 1. Distributed into sorts, kinds, or classes. 2. Furnished with an assortment. Burke. AS-SORTING, ppr. Separating into sorts; supplying with an assortiment. AS-SORTIMENT, n. 1. The act of distributing into sorts. 2. A mass or quantity of various kinds or sorts; or a number of things assorted. AS-SO F', v. t. To infatuate; to besot. Spenser. AS-SUAGE', (as-swaje') v. t. To soften; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as pain or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumalt. AS-SUAGE, v. i. To abate or subside. Gen. viii. AS-SUAGED, (as-swajd') pp. Allayed; mitigated; eased; appeased. AS-SUAGEMENT, n. Mitigation; abatement. AS-SUAGER, n. One who allays; that which mitigates or abates. AS-SUAGING, ppr. Allaying; mitigating; appeasing; abating. AS-SUASIVE, a. Softening; mitigating; tranquilizing. Pope. †AS-SUBJECT, v. t. [Fr. assoubjectir.] To make subject. AS-SUBJU-GATE, v. t. To subject to. Shak. AS-SUE-FAΕΤΙΟΝ, n. [L. assuefacio.] The act of accustoming. Brown. ASSUE-TUDE, (as/swe-tude) n. [L. assuetudo.] Custom; habit; habitual use. Bacon. AS-SUME', v. t. [L. assumo.] 1. To take, or take upon one. 2. To arrogate; to seize unjustly. 3. To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a fact. ASSUME, v. i. 1. To be arrogant; to claim more than is due.-2. In law, to take upon one's self an obligation; to undertake or promise. AS-SUM'ED, (as-sund') pp. Taken; arrogated; taken without proof; pretended. AS-SU MENT, n. [L.assumentum.] A piece or patch set on. AS-SUMER, n. One who assumes; an arrogant person. AS-SUMING ppr. Taking; arrogating; taking for granted; pretending. AS-SUMING, a. Taking or disposed to take upon one's self more than is just; haughty; arrogant. AS-SUMING, n. Presumption. Jonson. AS-SUMPSIT, n. [pret. tense of L. assumo.] 1. In law, a promise or undertaking founded on a consideration. 2. An actin founded on a promise. † AS-SUMPT', v. t. To take up; to raise. Sheldon. AS-SUMPT', n. That which is assumed. A3-SUMPTION, n. [L. assumptio.] 1. The act of taking to one's self. 2. The act of taking for granted; supposition. 3. The thing supposed; a postulate or proposition assumed. In logic, the minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. 4. A consequence drawn from the proposition of which an argument is composed. 5. Undertaking; a taking upon one's self. Kent.-6. In the Romish church, the taking up a person into heaven, as the Virgin Mary. Also, a festival in honor of the miraculous ascent of Mary. 7. Adoption. AS-SUMPTIVE, a. That is or may be assumed. AS-SURANCE, (as-shu-ranse) n. [Fr.] 1. The act of assuring. 2. Firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certain expectation; the utmost certainty. 3. Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity. 4. Excess of boldness; impudence. 5. Freedom from excessive modesty, timidity, or bashfulness; laudable confidence. 6. Insurance; a contract to make good a loss. [See INSURANCE.] 7. Any writing or legal evidence of the conveyance of property. 8. Conviction.-9. In theology, full confidence of one's interest in Christ, and of final salvation. AS SURE, (ash-shüre') v. t. [Fr. assurer.] 1. To make certain; to give confidence by a promise, declaration, or Caher evidence. 2. To confirm; to make certain or secure. 3. To embolden; to make confident. 4. To make secure, with of before the object secured. 5. To affiance; to betroth. [Obs.] Shak. 6. To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss. Sce INSURE. AS-SUR'ED, (ash shūrd') pp. Made certain or confident; made secure; insured. bitable; not doubting; bold to excess. AS-SÜRED-LY, (ash-shür-ed-ly) adv. Certainly; indubi tably. AS-SUR/ED-NESS, (ash-shür-ed-ness) n. The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence. AS-SUR'ER, (ash-shür-er) n. One who assures; one who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. AS-SURIGENT, a. [L. assurgens, assurgo.] Rising upwards in an arch Eaton. AS-SURING, ppr. Making sure or confident; giving secu rity; confirming. AS-SWAGE. See ASSUAGE (η. [Gr. αστακος and λιθος.] Petrified ASTA-CO-LITE, or fossil craw-fish, and other crusta ceous animals; called also cancrites, crabites, and gammarolites. AS/TE-18M, n. [Gr. αστειος.] In rhetoric, genteel irony; a polite and ingenious manner of deriding another ASTER, n. [Gr. αστηρ.] A genus of plants with compound flowers. AS-TERI-AS, or ASTER, n. [Gr. αστηρ.] Stella marina, sea-star, or star-fish. AS-TE'RI-A-TED, a. Radiated; presenting diverging rays, like a star. Cleaveland. AS-TE'RI-A-TITE, n. Petrified asterias. ASTER-ISK, n. [Gr. αστερισκος.] The figure of a star, thus. *, used in printing and writing. ASTER-ISM, n. [Gr. αστερισμος.] 1. A constellation; a sign in the zodiac. 2. An asterisk, or mark of reference. AS'TE-RITE, or star-stone. See ASTRITE. A-STERN', adv. 1. In or at the hinder part of a ship; or towards the hinder part, or backwards. 2. Behind a ship, at any indefinite distance. ASTE-ROID, n. [Gr. αστηρ and ειδος.] A name given by Herschel to the newly discovered planets between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. AS-TE-ROID AL, a. Resembling a star; or pertaining to the asteroids. Journ. of Science. ASTE-RO-PODE, 1 π. [Gr. αστηρ and πους, ποδος.] Α AS-TE-RO-PODI-UM, kind of extraneous fossil. En сус. † AS-TERT', v. t. To startle. Spenser. AS-THENIC, (as-ten'ik) a. [Gr. a and σθένος.] Weak; characterized by extreme debility. AS-THE-NOLOGY, n. [Gr. a, σθένος, and λογος.] The doctrine of diseases arising from debility. ASTH MA, (ast'ma) n. [Gr. ασθμα.] A shortness of breath; intermitting difficulty of breathing, with cough, straitness, and wheezing. ASTH-MATIC, a. Pertaining to asthima; also, affected by asthma. thouthury, ASTRA-GAL, n. [Gr. αστραγαλος.] 1. In architecture, a little round molding, which surrounds the top or bottom of a column, in the form of a ring.-2. In a round molding on cannon near In anatomy, the huckle, ankle, or sling bone; the upper bone of the foot, supporting the tibia. Core.-4. In botany, the wood-pea; the milk vetch; the licorice vetch. ASTRAL, a. [L. astrum; Gr. αστηρ.] Belonging to the stars; starry. Dryden. A-STRAY', adv. Out of the right way, or proper place. AS-TRE'A, n. [Gr. αστηρ.] The goddess of justice. Encyc. || AT, prep. (ax at; Goth. at.] In general, at denotes near AS-TRICT, v. t. [L. astringo, astrictus.] To bind fast, or compress. [Not much used.] AS-TRICT, a. Compendious; contracted. Weever. AS-TRICTED, pp. Bound fast; compressed with bandages AS-TRICT ING, ppr. Binding close; compressing; contracting. ness or presence; as, at the ninth hour, at the house, but it is less definite than in or on; at the house, may be in or near the house. It denotes, also, towards, versus; as, to aim an arrow at a mark. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at. At the sight, is with, present, or coming the sight; at this news, present the news, on or with the approach or arrival of this news, At peace, at war, in a state of peace or war, peace or war existing, being present; at ease, at play, at a loss, &c., convey the like idea. AS-TRICTION, n. 1. The act of binding close. 2. A contraction of parts by applications; the stopping of hemorrhages. Coze. AS-TRICTIVE, a. Binding; compressing; styptic. † AS-TRIGER-OUS, a. [Low L. astriger.] Bearing stars. AS-TRING/EN-CY, n. The power of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines which binds, contracts, or strengthens parts which are relaxed. AS-TRING/ENT, a. Binding; contracting; strengthening; opposed to lazative. AS-TRINGENT, n. An astringent medicine. AS-TRINGER, n. A falconer that keeps a goss hawk. AS-TRINGING, ppr. Compressing; binding fast; contracting. AS-TRITE, n. [Gr. αστηρ.] An extraneous fossil, called also asteria and astroit. AS-TROG/RA-PHY, n. [Gr. αστηρ, οι αστρον, and γραφω.] A description of the stars, or the science of describing them. ASTROIT, n. 1. Star-stone. [See ASTRITE.] 2. A species of petrified madrepore. ASTRO-LABE, n. [Gr. αστηρ and λαβειν.] 1. An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the sun or stars at sea. 2. A stereographic projection of the sphere. 3. Among the ancients, the same as the modern armillary sphere. ASTROLO-GER, n. [L. astrologus.] 1. One who AS-TRO-LOGI-AN, professes to foretell future events by the aspects and situation of the stars. Astrologian is little used. 2. Formerly, one who understood the motions of the planets without predicting. Raleigh. { a. AS-TRO-LOGIC, AS-TROL O-GY, n. A science which teaches to judge of } a. AS-TRO-NOмиє, AS-TRO-NOMI-CAL, AS-TRO-NOMI-CAL-LY, adv. In an astronomical manner; by the principles of astronomy. AS-TRONO-MIZE, v. i. To study astronomy. Brown. [Little used.] AS-TRONO-MΥ, π. [Gr. αστρον and νομος.] The science which teaches the knowledge of the celestial bodies, their magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, aspects, eclipses, order, &c. ASTRO-SCOPE, n. [Gr. αστρον and σκοπεω.] An astronomical instrument. ASTRO-SCO-PY, n. Observation of the stars. ASTRO-THE-OLO-GY, n. [L. astrum and theologia. Theology founded on the observation of the celestial bodies. A-STRUT', adv. In a strutting manner. 1A-STUN', n. t. To stun. AS-TOTE', a. [L. astutus.] Shrewd; sharp; eagle-eyed; critically examining or díscerning. A-SUNDER, adv. [Sax. asundrian.] Apart; into parts; separately; in a divided state. A-SWOON, adv. In a swoon. Gower. A-SYLUM, n. [L.] 1. A sanctuary, or place of refuge, where criminals and debtors shelter themselves from justice. 2. Any place of retreat and security. A-SYM'ME-TRAL, a. [See SYMMETRY.] Not having AS-YM-MET'RI-CAL, symmetry. More. [Little used.] A-SYM ME-TRY, n. [Gr. a and συμμετρια.] The want of proportion between the parts of a thing. AS YMP-TOTE, n. [Gr. α, συν, and πτοω.] A line which approaches nearer and nearer to some curve, but, though infinitely extended, would never meet it. AS-YMP-TOTI-CAL, a. Belonging to an asymptote. A-SYNDE-TON, n. [Gr. a and συνδεω.] In grammar, a figure which omits the connective; as, veni, vidi, vici. Campbell. AT'A-RAX-Y, η. [Gr. αταραχος.] Calmness of mind; a term used by the Stoics. A-TAXY, n. [Gr. a and ταξις.] Want of order; disturb ance; irregularity in the functions of the body. ATCHÉ, n. În Turkey, a small silver coin, value about six or seven mills. ATE, the preterit of eat, which see. A'TE, (al-ty) n. [Gr. ατη.] In pagan mythology, the god dess of mischief. A-TEL/LAN, a. Relating to the dramas at Atella. A-TEL/LAN, n. A dramatic representation, satirical or licentious. Shaftesbury. A TEMPO GI-US/TO. [It.] A direction in music, which signifies to sing or play in an equal, true, or just time. ATH-A-NASIAN, a. Pertaining to Athanasius or his creed. istical. A'THE-IZE, v. i. To discourse as an atheist. A-THEL, A-DEL, or Æ-THEL, noble, of illustrious birth. Sax. ædel, athel; G. adel; as in Atheling, a noble youth Ethelred, noble counsel. ATH-E-NE/UM, n. A reading-room. A-THI'NI-AN, a. Pertaining to Athens, the metropolis of A-THE NI-AN, n. A native or inhabitant of Athens. A/THE-OUS, a. Atheistic; impious. Milton. ATH'E-RINE, or ATH-E-RÍNA, n. A genus of fishes of the abdominal order. ATH-E-ROMA, or ATH'E-ROME, n. [Gr. from αθηρα.] An encysted tumor. ATH-E-ROMA-TOUS, a. Pertaining to or resembling: atherome. Wiseman. A-THIRST', a. 1. Thirsty; wanting drink. 2. Having a keen appetite or desire. ATHLETE, n. A contender for victory. ATH-LETIC, α. [Gr. αθλητης.] 1. Belonging to wrestling, boxing, running, and other exercises. 2. Strong, lusty; robust; vigorous. A-THWART', prep. 1. Across; from side to side; transverse. 2. In marine language, across the line of a ship's course; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. Mar. Dict. A-THWART, adv. In a manner to cross and perplex, crossly; wrong; wrongfully. A-TILT, adv. I. In the manner of a tilter; in the posi tion, or with the action, of a man making a thrust. 2. In the manner of a cask tilted, or with one end raised. ATI-MY,,n. [Gr. ατιμια.] In ancient Greece, disgrace; exclusion from office or magistracy, by some disqualify ing act or decree. AT-LANTI-AN, or AT-LAN-TEAN, a. 1. Pertaining to the isle Atlantis, which the ancients alledge was sunk and overwhelmed by the ocean. 2. Pertaining to Atlas; resembling Atlas. AT-LANTIC, a [from Atlas or Atlantis Pertaining to the Atlantic ocean. AT-LAN'TIЄ, и which is between Europe and Africa on the east and America on the west. The ocean, or that part of the ocean, |