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Mentioned or recited before.

Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.

The sails on the mizzenmast, or on the stays between the mainmast and mizzenmast. Totten.

of November, called, also, Allhallows or Hallowmas; a feast day kept in honor of all the saints; also, the season of this festival.

Being before the time of Moses.

A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.

ttack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

Capable of being assailed.

Assailing; attacking. Milton.

One who assails.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

A great-grandfather. [Obs.]

To make a saint of.

A colorless crystalline substance extracted from the Capsicum annuum, and giving off vapors of intense acridity.

A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.

A dancing tune in the Scotch style.

One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the Emperor Trajan.

An object of interest to the eye; one wirehaired with the eyes. [Obs.] That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl.

A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the Tyrol.

See Sail.