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A genus of phyllopod Crustacea found in salt lakes and brines; the brine shrimp. See Brine shrimp.

A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

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

Aspiration. [Obs.]

The act of assembling, or the state o In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton.

Resemblance; likeness; appearance. [Obs.] Care I for the . . . stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man Shak.

to one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2.

One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled.

A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble.

A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.

Mitigation; abatement.

onal suffering, and death of Christ. When a man has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench.

A tempering, or mixing in due proportion.

Temperance; attemperament. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Tempered; proportioned; properly adapted. Hope must be . . . attemperate to the promise. Hammond.

The act of attempering or regulating. [Archaic] Bacon.

Temperately. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Attemperament.

or experiment of; to try; to endeavor to do or perform (some action); to assay; as, to attempt to sing; to attempt a bold flight. Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose. Longfellow.