Assiduity (n.) Studied and persevering attention to a person; -- usually in the plural.
Assiduous (a.) Constant in application or attention; devoted; attentive; unremitting.
Assiduous (a.) Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.
Assiege (v. t.) To besiege.
Assiege (n.) A siege.
Assientist (n.) A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract.
Assiento (n.) 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.
Assigned (imp. & p. p.) of Assign
Assigning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assign
Assign (v. t.) To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
Assign (v. t.) To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
Assign (v. t.) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
Assign (v.) A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
Assign (n.) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
Assignability (n.) The quality of being assignable.
Assignable (a.) Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
Assignat (n.) 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.
Assignation (n.) The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
Assignation (n.) An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
Assignation (n.) A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
Assignee (v.) 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.
Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.
Assigner (n.) One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.
Assignment (n.) An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.
Assignment (n.) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands.
Assignment (n.) The writing by which an interest is transferred.
Assignment (n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.
Assignor (n.) An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.
Assimilability (n.) The quality of being assimilable.
Assimilable (a.) That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.
Assimilated (imp. & p. p.) of Assimilate
Assimilating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assimilate
Assimilate (v. t.) To bring to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between.
Assimilate (v. t.) To liken; to compa/e.
Assimilate (v. t.) To appropriate and transform or incorporate into the substance of the assimilating body; to absorb or appropriate, as nourishment; as, food is assimilated and converted into organic tissue.
Assimilate (v. i.) To become similar or like something else.
Assimilate (v. i.) To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body.
Assimilate (v. i.) To be converted into the substance of the assimilating body; to become incorporated; as, some kinds of food assimilate more readily than others.
Assimilation (n.) 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.
Assimilation (n.) The conversion of nutriment into the fluid or solid substance of the body, by the processes of digestion and absorption, whether in plants or animals.
Assimilative (a.) Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.
Assimilatory (a.) Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.
Assimulate (v. t.) To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble.
Assimulate (v. t.) To assimilate.
Assimulation (n.) Assimilation.
Assinego (n.) See Asinego.
Assish (a.) Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate.
Assisted (imp. & p. p.) of Assist
Assisting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assist
Assist (v. t.) To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
Assist (v. i.) To lend aid; to help.
Assist (v. i.) To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting.
Assistance (n.) The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.
Assistance (n.) An assistant or helper; a body of helpers.
Assistance (n.) Persons present.
Assistant (a.) Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Assistant (a.) Of the second grade in the staff of the army; as, an assistant surgeon.
Assistant (n.) One who, or that which, assists; a helper; an auxiliary; a means of help.
Assistant (n.) An attendant; one who is present.
Assistantly (adv.) In a manner to give aid.
Assister (n.) An assistant; a helper.
Assistful (a.) Helpful.
Assistive (a.) Lending aid, helping.
Assistless (a.) Without aid or help.
Assistor (n.) A assister.
Assithment (n.) See Assythment.
Assize (n.) An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
Assize (n.) A special kind of jury or inquest.
Assize (n.) A kind of writ or real action.
Assize (n.) A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.
Assize (n.) A statute or ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.
Assize (n.) Anything fixed or reduced to a certainty in point of time, number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize.
Assize (n.) A court, the sitting or session of a court, for the trial of processes, whether civil or criminal, by a judge and jury.
Assize (n.) The periodical sessions of the judges of the superior courts in every county of England for the purpose of administering justice in the trial and determination of civil and criminal cases; -- usually in the plural.
Assize (n.) The time or place of holding the court of assize; -- generally in the plural, assizes.
Assize (n.) Measure; dimension; size.
Assized (imp. & p. p.) of Assize
Assizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assize
Assize (v.) To assess; to value; to rate.
Assize (v.) To fix the weight, measure, or price of, by an ordinance or regulation of authority.
Assizer (n.) An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.
Assizor (n.) A juror.
Assober (v. t.) To make or keep sober.
Associability (n.) The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness.
Associable (a.) Capable of being associated or joined.
Associable (a.) Sociable; companionable.
Associable (a.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc.
Associableness (n.) Associability.
Associated (imp. & p. p.) of Associate
Associating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Associate
Associate (v. t.) To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise.
Associate (v. t.) To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances.
Associate (v. t.) To connect or place together in thought.
Associate (v. t.) To accompany; to keep company with.
Associate (v. i.) To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate.
Associate (v. i.) To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body.
Associate (a.) Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge.
Associate (a.) Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member.
Associate (a.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions.
Associate (n.) A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow.