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, or to maintain forces to oppose them. It afterward became a permanent tax, raised by an assessment, at first of one shilling, afterward of two shillings, upon every hide of land throughout the realm. Wharton's Law Dict. Tomlins.

etal in working condition by a single process from the ore. Knight. -- Direct tax, a tax assessed directly on lands, etc., and polls, distinguished from taxes on merchandise, or customs, and from excise.

To assess a tax upon, by estimate or at discretion. [New England] J. Pickering.

To make four times as much or as many, as an assessment,; to quadruple.

defendant has suffered judgment to pass against him by default, in order to ascertain and assess the plaintiff's damages, where they can not readily be ascertained by mere calculation. Burrill.

To impose, as a burden, suffering, or punishment; to assess, as a tax; as, to lay a tax on land. The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. Is. Iiii. 6.

Fit to be levied; capable of being assessed and collected; as, sums leviable by course of law. Bacon.

To raise or collect by assessment; to exact by authority; as, to levy taxes, toll, tribute, or contributions. If they do this . . . my ransom, then, Will soon be levied. Shak.

el (Anagallis arvensis), which opens its blossoms only in fair weather. -- Poor rate, an assessment or tax, as in an English parish, for the relief or support of the poor. -- Poor soldier (Zoöl.), the friar bird. -- The poor, those who are destitute of property; the indigent; the needy. In a legal sense, those who d…

To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.]

To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata. [U.S.]

A tax or sum assessed by authority on property for public use, according to its income or value; esp., in England, a local tax; as, parish rates; town rates.

A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. W. Irving.

A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. W. Savage.

A portion of money assessed or paid; a tax or contribution; a mulct; a fine; a shot. Scot and lot, formerly, a parish assessment laid on subjects according to their ability. [Eng.] Cowell. Now, a phrase for obligations of every kind regarded collectivelly. Experienced men of the world know very well that it is best to…

A species of firework having a serpentine motion as it passess through the air or along the ground.

To lay a tax upon; to assess. [Obs.]

To assess, fix, or determine judicially, the amount of; as, to tax the cost of an action in court.

Capable of being taxed; liable by law to the assessment of taxes; as, taxable estate; taxable commodities.

The act of taxing, or assessing a bill of cost.