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A thorny shrub yielding a fragrant oil. Ecclus. xxiv. 15.

nets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth. Milton.

The spreading of calumniations reports or charges which tarnish reputation, like the bespattering of a body with foul water; calumny. Every candid critic would be ashamed to cast wholesale aspersions on the entire body of professional teachers. Grote. Who would by base aspersions blot thy virtue. Dryden.…

Tending to asperse; defamatory; slanderous. -- As*pers"ive*ly, adv.

A group of Gastropoda, with limpetlike shells, including the abalone shells and keyhole limpets.

To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. [Archaic] Your rhymes assassinate our fame. Dryden. Such usage as your honorable lords Afford me, assassinated and betrayed. Milton.

ature of a tax, fine, etc.; to impose a tax upon (a person, an estate, or an income) according to a rate or apportionment.

belonging to a person, a corporation, or an estate; as, the assets of a merchant or a trading association; -- opposed to liabilities.

Usually attending a disease, but not always; as, assident signs, or symptoms.

Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.

Tending to assimilate, or produce assimilation; as, assimilatory organs.

Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

Lending aid, helping.

A verdict or finding of a jury upon such writ.

or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions. E. Darwin.

which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. Porter.

Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller.

The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence. Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead. Acts xvii. 31. Assurances of support came pouring in daily. Macaulay.

Ascending; (Bot.)

That assures; tending to assure; giving confidence. -- As*sur"ing*ly, adv.