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A genus of simple ascidians, which formerly included most of the known species. It is sometimes used as a name for the Ascidioidea, or for all the Tunicata.

are collected, and which constitutes the mature fructification. The different forms are known in mycology under distinct names. Called also spore fruit.

Rough ashlar, a block of freestone as brought from the quarry. When hammer-dressed it is known as common ashlar. Knight.

The young and tender shoots of A. officinalis, which form a valuable and well-known article of food.

wish; high desire. "Aspirations after virtue." Johnson. Vague aspiration after military renown. Prescott.

to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

bs.] Chaucer. I am withal persuaded that it may prove much more easy in the assay than it now seems at distance. Milton.

An assembling; assemblage. [Obs.] To weete [know] the cause of their assemblance. Spenser.

a promissory, declaration. Bentham. A proposition is assertory, when it enounces what is known as actual. Sir W. Hamilton.

One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

tment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope.

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

Capable of being associated or joined. We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

To receive or adopt. The sixth was a young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

r.), originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith.

rave men meet danger with assurance. Knolles. Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance. Locke.

to make certain or secure. And it shall be assured to him. Lev. xxvii. 19. And hereby we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him. 1 John iii. 19.

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

The science or knowledge of the stars, esp. the fixed stars. Bouvier.