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dertakes to indemnify or guarantee another against loss by certain specified risks. Cf. Assurance, n., 6.

One who effects insurance; an insurer; an underwriter. [Obs.] Dryden. hose bold insurancers of deathless fame. Blair.

The person insured. Champness.

Vacant of employment; not occupied; idle; leisure; as leisurable hours. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

At leisure. [Obs.]

Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.

The quality of being mensurable.

Capable of being measured; measurable.

The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.

Of or pertaining to measure.

To measure. [Obs.]

The act, process, or art, of measuring.

Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

atifying; abounding in pleasantness or pleasantry. Planting of orchards is very . . . pleasurable. Bacon. O, sir, you are very pleasurable. B. Jonson. -- Pleas"ur*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pleas"ur*a*bly, adv.

Previous assurance. Coleridge.

Pressure.

Assurance or confirmation renewed or repeated. Prynne.

Insurance a second time or again; renewed insurance.

Insurance for a specified term providing for no payment to the insured except upon losses during the term, and becoming void upon its expiration.

Insurance in which the benefits of the insurance are distributed upon the tontine principle. Under the old, or full tontine, plan, all benefits were forfeited on lapsed policies, on the policies of those who died within the tontine period only the face of the policy was paid without any share of the surplus, and the su…