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The quality of being assignable.

The quality of being assimilable. [R.] Coleridge.

See Assythment. [Obs.]

The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.

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.

coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

A radiated stone or fossil; star-stone. [Obs.] [Written also astrite and astrion.]

The science of aërolites.

Craftiness; astuteness. [R.] Carlyle.

An oxychloride of copper, usually in emerald-green prismatic crystals.

Degree of atomic attraction; equivalence; valence; also (a later use) the number of atoms in an elementary molecule. See Valence.

An atrocious or extremely cruel deed. The atrocities which attend a victory. Macaulay.

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.

The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

Relating to attitude.

One who attitudinizes; a posture maker.

A practicing of attitudes; posture making.

To assume affected attitudes; to strike an attitude; to pose. Maria, who is the most picturesque figure, was put to attitudinize at the harp. Hannah More.

One who practices attitudes.

The quality or fact of being attractable. Sir W. Jones.