Part 705

<blockquote>To weary him with my <b>assiduous</b> cries. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Diligent; attentive; sedulous; unwearied; unintermitted; persevering; laborious; indefatigable.</syn>

<wordforms><wf>As*sid"u*ous*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>As*sid"u*ous*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Assiege</h1> <Xpage=91>

<hw>As*siege"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>asegen</ets>, OF. <ets>asegier</ets>, F. <ets>assi\'82ger</ets>, fr. LL. <ets>assediare</ets>, <ets>assidiare</ets>, to besiege. See <er>Siege</er>.]</ety> <def>To besiege.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Assieged</i> castles."

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Assiege</h1> <Xpage=91>

<hw>As*siege"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A siege.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Assientist</h1> <Xpage=91>

<hw>As`si*en"tist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>assientiste</ets>, Sp. <ets>asentista</ets>.]</ety> <def>A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract.</def>

<i>Bancroft.</i>

<h1>Assiento</h1> <Xpage=91>

<hw>As`si*en"to</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp. <ets>asiento</ets> seat, contract or agreement, fr. <ets>asentar</ets> to place on a chair, to adjust, to make an agreement; <ets>a</ets> (L. <ets>ad</ets>) + <ets>sentar</ets>, a participial verb; as if there were a L. <ets>sedentare</ets> to cause to sit, fr. <ets>sedens</ets>, <ets>sedentis</ets>, p. pr. of <ets>sed<?/re</ets> to sit.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Assign</h1> <Xpage=91>

<hw>As*sign"</hw> <tt>(#)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Assigned</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Assigning</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>assignen</ets>, <ets>asignen</ets>, F. <ets>assigner</ets>, fr. L. <ets>assignare</ets>; <ets>ad + signare</ets> to mark, mark out, designate, <ets>signum</ets> mark, sign. See <er>Sign</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.</def>

<blockquote>In the order I <b>assign</b> to them. <i>Loudon.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been <b>assigned</b>. <i>Southey.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He <b>assigned</b> to his men their several posts. <i>Prescott.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; <as>as, to <ex>assign</ex> a limit; to <ex>assign</ex> counsel for a prisoner; to <ex>assign</ex> a day for trial.</as></def>

<blockquote>All as the dwarf the way to her <b>assigned</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It is not easy to <b>assign</b> a period more eventful. <i>De Quincey.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called <i>assignees</i>, for the benefit of creditors.</def>

<cs><col>To assign dower</col>, <cd>to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate.</cd></cs>

<i>Kent.</i>

<h1>Assign</h1> <Xpage=91>

<hw>As*sign"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Assign</er>, <ets>v</ets>.]</ety> <def>A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Six French rapiers and poniards, with their <b>assigns</b>, as girdles, hangers, and so. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>