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ngruous; in a manner. -- As now, just now. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- As swythe, as quickly as possible. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- As well, also; too; besides. Addison. -- As well as, equally with, no less than. "I have understanding as well as you." Job xii. 3. -- As yet, until now; up to or at the present time; still; now.…

of persuading or confuting, of defending himself against accusations, . . . no man could possibly hold an ascendent position. Grote.

Loss of power to express, or to understand, symbols or signs of thought.

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

Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death.

To insure; to covenant to indemnify for loss, or to pay a specified sum at death. See Insure.

One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

A genus of fishes, some of which were eighteen or twenty feet long, found in a fossil state in the Old Red Sandstone. Hugh Miller.

A fossil plant from the coal formations of Europe and America, now regarded as the branchlets and foliage of calamites.

Want or loss of strength; debility; diminution of the vital forces.

Not possessing a mouth.

The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense. [Obs.] A coldness and astonishment in his loins, as folk say. Holland.

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

A hetman, or chief of the Cossacks.

Across; from side to side of. Athwart the thicket lone. Tennyson.

Public disgrace or stigma; infamy; loss of civil rights. Mitford.

ed as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides. Oxf. Gloss.

Anything extremely small; a particle; a whit. There was not an atom of water. Sir J. Ross.

Hoisted up and ready to be swayed across; -- said of yards.

To gain or obtain possession of; to acquire. [Obs. with a material object.] Chaucer.