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e. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.

asphaltic cement. Artificial asphalt is prepared from coal tar, lime, sand, etc. Asphalt stone, Asphalt rock, a limestone found impregnated with asphalt.

y striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery. Blackstone. Wharton. Practically, however, the word assault is used to include the battery. Mozley & W.

nt of. This sum is assessed and raised upon individuals by commissioners in the act. Blackstone.

ble to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.

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

me of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

Etym: [See At one.] [Obs.] Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer.

A extinct genus of Branchiopoda, very common in Silurian limestones.

lue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to the muscles. Paley. A huge stone to which the cable was attached. Macaulay.

[Obs.] Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone.

s is the act of feudatories, vassals, or tenants, upon the alienation of the estate. Blackstone.

ent of a tenant to acknowledge the purchaser of the estate as his landlord. Burrill. Blackstone.

See Algorism. [Obs.] Chaucer. Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration. -- Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. Chaucer.

A process in lithography by which a writing or drawing is transferred from paper to stone. Ure.

nal firelike reflections due to the presence of minute crystals, probably of hematite; sunstone.

ff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone.

To acknowledge and justify, as an act done. See Avowry. Blackstone.

ods, who, in an action of replevin, avows and justifies the taking in his own right. Blackstone.