Assault (n.) To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.
Assaultable (a.) Capable of being assaulted.
Assaulter (n.) One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant.
Assay (n.) Trial; attempt; essay.
Assay (n.) Examination and determination; test; as, an assay of bread or wine.
Assay (n.) Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
Assay (n.) Tested purity or value.
Assay (n.) The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially, the determination of the proportion of gold or silver in bullion or coin.
Assay (n.) The alloy or metal to be assayed.
Assayed (imp. & p. p.) of Assay
Assaying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assay
Assay (v.) To try; to attempt; to apply.
Assay (v.) To affect.
Assay (v.) To try tasting, as food or drink.
Assay (v.) To subject, as an ore, alloy, or other metallic compound, to chemical or metallurgical examination, in order to determine the amount of a particular metal contained in it, or to ascertain its composition.
Assay (v. i.) To attempt, try, or endeavor.
Assayable (a.) That may be assayed.
Assayer (n.) One who assays. Specifically: One who examines metallic ores or compounds, for the purpose of determining the amount of any particular metal in the same, especially of gold or silver.
Assaying (n.) The act or process of testing, esp. of analyzing or examining metals and ores, to determine the proportion of pure metal.
Asse (n.) A small foxlike animal (Vulpes cama) of South Africa, valued for its fur.
Assecuration (n.) Assurance; certainty.
Assecure (v. t.) To make sure or safe; to assure.
Assecution (n.) An obtaining or acquiring.
Assegai (n.) Same as Assagai.
Assemblage (n.) The act of assembling, or the state of being assembled; association.
Assemblage (n.) A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.
Assemblance (n.) Resemblance; likeness; appearance.
Assemblance (n.) An assembling; assemblage.
Assembled (imp. & p. p.) of Assemble
Assembling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assemble
Assemble (v. t.) To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate.
Assemble (v. i.) To meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate.
Assemble (v. i.) To liken; to compare.
Assembler (n.) One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled.
Assemblies (pl. ) of Assembly
Assembly (n.) A company of persons collected together in one place, and usually for some common purpose, esp. for deliberation and legislation, for worship, or for social entertainment.
Assembly (n.) A collection of inanimate objects.
Assembly (n.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.
Assemblymen (pl. ) of Assemblyman
Assemblyman (n.) A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.
Assented (imp. & p. p.) of Assent
Assenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assent
Assent (v. t.) To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.
Assent (v.) The act of assenting; the act of the mind in admitting or agreeing to anything; concurrence with approval; consent; agreement; acquiescence.
Assentation (n.) Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.
Assentator (n.) An obsequious; a flatterer.
Assentatory (a.) Flattering; obsequious.
Assenter (n.) One who assents.
Assentient (a.) Assenting.
Assenting (a.) Giving or implying assent.
Assentive (a.) Giving assent; of the nature of assent; complying.
Assentment (n.) Assent; agreement.
Asserted (imp. & p. p.) of Assert
Asserting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assert
Assert (v. t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance, or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.
Assert (v. t.) To maintain; to defend.
Assert (v. t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
Asserter (n.) One who asserts; one who avers pr maintains; an assertor.
Assertion (n.) The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
Assertion (n.) Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
Assertive (a.) Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.
Assertor (n.) One who asserts or avers; one who maintains or vindicates a claim or a right; an affirmer, supporter, or vindicator; a defender; an asserter.
Assertorial (a.) Asserting that a thing is; -- opposed to problematical and apodeictical.
Assertory (a.) Affirming; maintaining.
Assessed (imp. & p. p.) of Assess
Assessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assess
Assess (v.) To value; to make a valuation or official estimate of for the purpose of taxation.
Assess (v.) To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.
Assess (v.) To determine and impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty-five cents.
Assess (v.) To fix or determine the rate or amount of.
Assessable (a.) Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property.
Assessee (n.) One who is assessed.
Assession (n.) A sitting beside or near.
Assessment (n.) The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.
Assessment (n.) A valuation of property or profits of business, for the purpose of taxation; such valuation and an adjudging of the proper sum to be levied on the property; as, an assessment of property or an assessment on property.
Assessment (n.) The specific sum levied or assessed.
Assessment (n.) An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a "call").
Assessor (v.) One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.
Assessor (v.) One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.
Assessor (v.) One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.
Assessorial (a.) Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors.
Assessorship (n.) The office or function of an assessor.
Asset (n.) Any article or separable part of one's assets.
Assets (n. pl.) Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend.
Assets (n. pl.) Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts.
Assets (n. pl.) The entire property of all sorts, belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.
Assever (v. t.) See Asseverate.
Asseverated (imp. & p. p.) of Asseverate
Asseverating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Asseverate
Asseverate (v. t.) To affirm or aver positively, or with solemnity.
Asseveration (n.) The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positive affirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.
Asseverative (a.) Characterized by asseveration; asserting positively.
Asseveratory (a.) Asseverative.
Assibilate (v. t.) To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant.
Assibilation (n.) Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to -shun, duke to ditch.
Assidean (n.) One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.
Assident (a.) Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.
Assiduate (a.) Unremitting; assiduous.
Assiduities (pl. ) of Assiduity
Assiduity (n.) Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence.