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A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile.

Change of a non-sibilant letter to a sibilant, as of -tion to - shun, duke to ditch.

ing to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another. To aspire to an assimilation with God. Dr. H. More. The assimilation of gases and vapors. Sir J. Herschel.

Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.

Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.

To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. [Obs.] Blount.

Assimilation. [Obs.] Bacon.

To assent. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Stipulation; agreement. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A worshiper of the stars. Morley.

The worship of the stars.

one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes on each side of its petiole or base.

Inoculation of a person with virus from his own body.

Self-worship. Farrar.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

The act of flying; flight; evaporation. [Obs.]

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

The bully tree (Minusops globosa); also, its milky juice (balata gum), which when dried constitutes an elastic gum called chicle, or chicle gum.