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Of or pertaining to a reed; resembling the reed or cane.

Relating to ascension; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six…

That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.

A furnace or oven for fritting materials for glass making.

An asiphonate mollusk.

A group of bivalve mollusks destitute of siphons, as the oyster; the asiphonate mollusks.

Not sounding or sounded. [R.] C. C. Felton.

lp, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

An assassin.

The quality of being assignable.

Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.

One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland.

Of or pertaining to association, or to an association.

Resemblance of sound. "The disagreeable assonance of Steevens.

Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant.

Assonant.

To correspond in sound.

Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.