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sel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial. All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. Spenser. It is not easy to assign a period more eventful. De Quincey.

n; size. [In this sense now corrupted into size.] An hundred cubits high by just assize. Spenser. [Formerly written, as in French, assise.]

To set free; to release. [Archaic] Till from her hands the spright assoiled is. Spenser.

besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate. [Obs.] Some ecstasy assotted had his sense. Spenser.

To start up; to befall; to escape; to shun. [Obs.] Spenser.

Dismay; consternation. [Archaic] Spenser.

Stunned; astounded; astonished. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort. Spenser.

Together. [Obs.] Spenser. He and Aufidius can no more atone Than violentest contrariety. Shak.

que direction; sidewise; obliquely. Sometimes athwart, sometimes he strook him straight. Spenser.

isgrace; to cloud with infamy. For so exceeding shone his glistring ray, That Phattaint. Spenser. Lest she with blame her honor should attaint. Spenser.

o service; to escort; to wait on; to serve. The fifth had charge sick persons to attend. Spenser. Attends the emperor in his royal court. Shak. With a sore heart and a gloomy brow, he prepared to attend William thither. Macaulay.

Intent. [Obs.] Spenser.

Attention; heed. [Obs.] Spenser.

At once; together. [Obs.] Spenser.

Between. [Archaic] Spenser. Tennyson.

Betwixt. [Obs.] Spenser.

To figure or variegate. [Obs.] Spenser.

mechanical; as, automatic movements or functions. Unconscious or automatic reasoning. H. Spenser. Automatic arts, such economic arts or manufacture as are carried on by self-acting machinery. Ure.

another's mind is more or less after the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic. H. Spenser.