assist less

[Eng. a ist, and suffix -le .] Without a istance. ( Poetic.) "Stupid he stares, and all a ist le stands." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xvi. 970. * as-sīth', * as-sy'th, v.t. [ASSETH.] 1. Ord. Lang.: To satisfy. "Lauchful or evyne pwniscioune May thaim a ith be na resone.' Ratis Raving, bk. L. (ed. Lumby), 2,391-2. 2. Scots Law : To make compensation for an injury. * as-sīth'-měnt ( 0. Eng. ), as-sỹ th-měnt (Scotch), s. [O. Eng. a ith = to compensate, and suffix-ment.] *1. Old Eng.: A weregild, or composition by a pecuniary mulct. 2. Scotch : Indemnification from persons injured, without which, in former times, pardon could not be granted by the king. (The term a ythment is not yet obsolete in Scots Law.) "For this reason it was not competent to any one charged with a crime to plead a remi ion till he had given security to indemnify the private party (1457, с. 74; 1528, c. 7); and in case of case of slaughter, it behoved the wife or executors of the deceased who were entitled to that indemnification, or as it is called in the style of our statutes a ythment, to subscribe letters of slains acknowledging that they had received satisfaction, or otherwise to concur in soliciting for the pardon before it could be obtained (1592).'" (1592)."- Erskine : Instit., bk. iv., title iv. as-size (1), s . A layer of stone, or one of the cylindrical blocks in a column. The number of a izes in the Great Pyramid was 203. (Knight's Dict. of Mechanics.)