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To apportion a sum to be paid by (a person, a community, or an estate), in the nature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

An apportionment of a subscription for stock into successive installments; also, one of these installments (in England termed a "call"). [U. S.]

One of a body of devoted Jews who opposed the Hellenistic Jews, and supported the Asmoneans.

To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. In the order I assign to them. Loudon. The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

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

One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.

ditors. Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her.

To give support 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.

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

ordinance in general. Specifically: (1) A statute regulating the weight, measure, and proportions of ingredients and the price of articles sold in the market; as, the assize of bread and other provisions; (2) A statute fixing the standard of weights and measures.

ominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. Porter.

To pretend to possess; to take in appearance. Ambition assuming the mask of religion. Porteus. Assume a virtue, if you have it not. Shak.

e unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay.

Not symmetrical; wanting proportion; esp., not bilaterally symmetrical. Huxley.

Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

ss definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at. It expresses: -

f or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.

The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.

Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.