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g up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] Howell.

n assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

umber, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill.

Incomplete correspondence. Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell.

to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively. The consequences of assumed principles. Whewell.

to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

ke with amazement; to confound with wonder, surprise, or fear. These thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind. Milton.

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

e sphere on the plane of a great circle, as the equator, or a meridian; a planisphere. Whewell.

Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. [Archaic] Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

Of or pertaining to atmology. "Atmological laws of heat." Whewell.

That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomena of aqueous vapor. Whewell.

r hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain. [Obs.] Not well attaining his meaning. Fuller.

To mix in just proportion; to regulate; as, a mind well attempered with kindness and justice.

Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys (Mus.), the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative min…

Twisted; distorted; awry. [R.] Halliwell.

Expert; skillful; well instructed.

To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; to swell; to make bigger; as, to augment an army by reëforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. But their spite still serves His glory to augment. Milton.