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Settlement; adjustment by agreement; as, the parties have made an arrangement between themselves concerning their disputes; a satisfactory arrangement.

Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.

A joint or juncture between bones in the skeleton.

tar, or other celestial body, in a right sphere; or the arc of the equator intercepted between the first point of Aries and that point of the equator that comes to the meridian with the star; -- expressed either in degrees or in time. -- Oblique ascension (Astron.), an arc of the equator, intercepted between the first…

, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its meridian passage.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the Milkweed family.

A genus of plants including the milkweed, swallowwort, and some other species having medicinal properties. Asclepias butterfly (Zoöl.), a large, handsome, red and black butterfly (Danais Archippus), found in both hemispheres. It feeds on plants of the genus Asclepias.

Consisting of, or resembling, ashes; of a color between brown and gray, or white and gray. The ashen hue of age. Sir W. Scott.

The short upright pieces between the floor beams and rafters in garrets. See Ashlar, 2.

The act of assembling, or the state o In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton.

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

or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced. There is a difference between assertion and demonstration. Macaulay.

A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

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.

Incomplete correspondence. Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell.

Dazed; foolish; infatuated. [Obs.] Willie, I ween thou be assot. Spenser.

An anchor is said to be astay, in heaving it, an acute angle is formed between the cable and the surface of the water.

A starlike body; esp. one of the numerous small planets whose orbits lie between those of Mars and Jupiter; -- called also planetoids and minor planets.

Concise; contracted. [Obs.] Weever.

The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather. -- As`*tro*me`te*or`o*log"ic*al, a. -- As`tro*me`te*or*ol"o*gist, n.