Assignment, as-sine' -ment, s

an allotting or appointment to a particular person or use; a transfer answer of A ume, title or interest; the writing by which an interest is transferred; the thing or property transferred; a pointing out [Law]. A ignment in bankruptcy, the transfer of a bankrupt's property to a ignees for the benefit of the creditors. A umer, ASSUMER ] as-se-nor', s. an a igner; a person who a igns or transfers an interest. as-sim'-e-la-bl, a. that may be a imilated. as-sim'-e-late, v.a. to bring to a likene ; to convert into a like organic substance: v.n. to become similar; to perform the act of converting food into the substance of the body; to be converted into the substance of the body (L. ad, and similis, like). as-sim-e-la -shun, s. the act or proce of a imilating; the state of being a imilated; the proce by which plants and animals absorb and convert nutriment into their own substance [Physiol.] as-sim'-e-la-tiv, a. having power of converting to a likene , or to a like substance. as -sim'-e-la-to-re, a. tending to a imilate; a imilative. -sist', v.a. to aid, help, or succour;to support: v.n. to lend aid; to be present; to take part in (L. ad, and sis to, to make to stand). as-sist' -ans, s. help; aid; support. as-sist'-ant, a. helping; supporting; auxiliary: s. one who a ists another; an auxiliary. as-sist'-les a. without aid or help., as-size', s. originally an a embly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, for public busine ; any court of justice; an ordinance regulating the weight, measure, and price of certain articles of common consumption; the weight, measure, or price itself. See A e . as-size' -ez, s.pl. courts held twice a year in every county of England, by special commi ion to one or more of the judges of the superior courts; the time or place of holding the court of a ize. v.a. to fix the weight, measure, or price of commodities;to a e , as taxes. as-size' -ment, s. inspection of weights and measures, . as-size' -er, s. an officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures. as-size' -er, s. a juror [Scots Law]. as-so'-she-a-bl, a. that may be joined to or a ociated; sociable; companionable; liable to be affected by sympathy [Med.] as-so-sha-bil' -e-te, As sociablene , as-so'- shå-bl-nes, s. the quality of being a ociable. as-so' -she-ate, v.a. to join in company, as a friend, companion, or confederate; to unite;to combine: v.n. to unite in, or to keep, company, implying Intimacy;to join in a ociation; to unite in action, or be affected by the action of a different part of the body: a. joined in interest, purpose, or office; connected by habit or sympathy [Med.]: s.companion; a partner; an ally (L. ad, and socius, a companion). as-so' -she-ate-ship, s. the state or office of an a ociate. as-so'-she-å-shun, s. the act of a ociating; a society formed for promoting some object; connexion. A ociation of ideas, that relation among ideas and feelings by which which they tend to suggest and recall one another. as-so-she-a -shun-al, a. pertaining to an a ociation. as-so'-she-å-tiv, a. having the quality of a ociating. as-soil'-yee, v.a. to acquit [Scots Law]. (L. ab, and solvo, to loose). as'-so-nant, a. having a resemblance in sound; rhyming, in which the syllables contain the corresponding vowel sounds to the neglect of the consonants [Pros.] (L. ad, and so no, to sound.) as' -so-nans, s. the quality of being a onant. 1quired: as-sort' v.n., v.a. to agree to arrange to be into in accordance sorts or lots with as (L. ad, and sors, lot). as-sort'-ment, s. the act of a orting; a quantity of things a orted; the cla under which they are a orted. as-swaje' v.a.to soften;to mitigate; to, allay; to soothe: v.n. to abate or subside (L. ad, and suavis, mild). as-swaje'-ment, s. mitigation; abatement. as-swaje'-er, s. one who, or that which, a uages. as-swa' -ziv, a. softening; mitigating. as-swe-fak' -shun, s. the act of accustoming; the state of being accustomed. as'-swe-tewd, s. custom; use; habit (L. ad, and suesco, to become used). as-sewm', 2 v.a. to take on; to take upon one's self; to arrogate; to take for granted; to appropriate; to admit; to affect: v.n. to be arrogant; to claim more than is due; to take upon one's self an obligation [Law]. (L. ad, and sumo, to take.) as-sewm'-er, s. an arrogant person.