Part 695

<blockquote>An <b>assailant</b> of the church. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Assailer</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sail"er</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who assails.</def>

<h1>Assailment</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sail"ment</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act or power of assailing; attack; assault.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>His most frequent <b>assailment</b> was the headache. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Assamar</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As"sa*mar</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>assare</ets> to roast + <ets>amarus</ets>, bitter.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>The peculiar bitter substance, soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are roasted till they turn brown.</def>

<h1>Assamese</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As`sam*ese"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants.</def> -- <def2><tt>n. sing. & pl.</tt> <def> A native or natives of Assam.</def></def2>

<mhw><h1>Assapan, Assapanic</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As`sa*pan"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <hw>As`sa*pan"ic</hw></mhw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. Indian name.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The American flying squirrel (<spn>Pteromys volucella</spn>).</def>

<h1>Assart</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sart"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>essart</ets> the grubbing up of trees, fr. <ets>essarter</ets> to grub up or clear ground of bushes, shrubs, trees, etc., fr. LL. <ets>exartum</ets>, <ets>exartare</ets>, for <ets>exsaritare</ets>; L. <ets>ex + sarire</ets>, <ets>sarrire</ets>, <ets>saritum</ets>, to hoe, weed.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Old Law)</fld> <def>The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest.</def>

<i>Spelman. Cowell.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing.</def>

<i>Ash.</i>

<cs><col>Assart land</col>, <cd>forest land cleared of woods and brush.</cd></cs>

<h1>Assart</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sart"</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; <as>as, to <ex>assart</ex> land or trees</as>.</def>

<i>Ashmole.</i>

<h1>Assassin</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sas"sin</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. (cf. It. <ets>assassino</ets>), fr. Ar. <ets><?/hashishin</ets> one who has drunk of the <ets>hashish</ets>. Under its influence the Assassins of the East, followers of the <ets>Shaikh al</ets>-<ets>Jabal</ets> (Old Man of the Mountain), were said to commit the murders required by their chief.]</ety> <def>One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.</def>

<h1>Assassin</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sas"sin</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To assassinate.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Stillingfleet.</i>

<h1>Assassinate</h1> <Xpage=90>

<hw>As*sas"sin*ate</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Assassinated</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Assassinating</er> <tt>(#)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[LL. <ets>assassinatus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>assassinare</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence.</def>