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system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of one's dress; the Linnæan arrangement of plants.

The arrest of a person, or the seizure of his effects; esp., a process by which money or movables in the possession of a third party are attached.

A subdivision of a department. [France]

a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.

Aspiration. [Obs.]

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

Assent; agreement. [Obs.]

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

See Assythment. [Obs.]

A soiling; defilement.

a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods.

Mitigation; abatement.

A patch; an addition; a piece put on. [Obs.] John Lewis (1731).

Indemnification for injury; satisfaction. [Chiefly in Scots law]

Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

Amazement. Coleridge.

ffering that which will be received in satisfaction for an offense or injury; expiation; amends; -- with for. Specifically, in theology: The expiation of sin made by the obedience, personal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others.…

Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.

Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.