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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.

Pretentious; taking much upon one's self; presumptuous. Burke.

A promise or undertaking, founded on a consideration. This promise may be oral or in writing not under seal. It may be express or implied.

The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. Assumptive arms (Her.), 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.…

Sir P. Sidney. This sodeyn cas this man astonied so, That reed he wex, abayst, and al quaking. Chaucer.

The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.

Sticking out, or puffed out; swelling; in a swelling manner. [Archaic] Inflated and astrut with self-conceit. Cowper.

To set aside or reject as spurious, as by marking with an obelus.

In the manner of a tilter; in the position, or with the action, of one making a thrust. "To run atilt at men." Hudibras.

To unite in making. [Obs. & R.] The four elements . . . have atoned A noble league. Ford.

Like ink; suitable for making ink. Sulphate of iron (copperas, green vitriol) is called atramentarious, as being used in making ink.

writ, and bring before a court, as to answer for a debt, or a contempt; -- applied to a taking of the person by a civil process; being now rarely used for the arrest of a criminal. (b) To seize or take (goods or real estate) by virtue of a writ or precept to hold the same to satisfy a judgment which may be rendered in…

ment (i. e., a device attached to a sewing machine to enable it to do special work, as tucking, etc.).

The act of attacking, or falling on with force or violence; an onset; an assault; -- opposed to defense.

or Archaic] It made the laughter of an afternoon That Vivien should attempt the blameless king. Thackeray.

Making thin, as fluids; diluting; rendering less dense and viscid; diluent. -- n. (Med.)

The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation.

A practicing of attitudes; posture making.

stranger not naturalized. Littré. Droit d'aubaine (, the right, formerly possessed by the king of France, to all the personal property of which an alien died possessed. It was abolished in 1819. Bouvier.