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One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.

A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount.…

One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.

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

An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action.

The quality of being assimilable. [R.] Coleridge.

That may be assimilated; that may be likened, or appropriated and incorporated.

To bring 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 assimilate. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Assimilation. [Obs.] Bacon.

See Asinego.

Resembling an ass; asinine; stupid or obstinate. Such . . . appear to be of the assich kind . . . Udall.

ort to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor. Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak.

The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak.

ng; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

In a manner to give aid. [R.]