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Quality of being articulate.

To make sibilant; to change to a sibilant. J. Peile.

ing to a likeness or to conformity; to cause a resemblance between. Sir M. Hale. To assimilate our law to the law of Scotland. John Bright. Fast falls a fleecy; the downy flakes Assimilate all objects. Cowper.

To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. [Obs.] Blount.

To assent. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A worshiper of the stars. Morley.

one or both sides, as in certain bivalve shells, the foot of some gastropods, etc. Auriculate leaf, one having small appended leaves or lobes on each side of its petiole or base.

To fly away; to escape; to exhale. [Obs.]

A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.

Having short, stiff hairs, often barbed at the point. Gray.

Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.

e, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate.

To retard or make too late. Davenant.

Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted. "Some belated peasant." Milton. -- Be*lat"ed*ness, n. Milton.

Biangular.

Having, or consisting of, tow joints.

Having two auricles, as the heart of mammals, birds, and reptiles.

A worshiper of books; especially, a worshiper of the Bible; a believer in its verbal inspiration. De Quincey.

Flabellate on both sides.

Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.