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The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process; as, squire for esquire. New Eng. Dict.

Applicable; also, compliant. [Obs.] Howell.

The award of arbitrators. Cowell.

One who makes trees his study, or who is versed in the knowledge of trees. Howell.

Silver plate or vessels. [Obs.] Bowls of frosted argentry. Howell.

man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.

ummoned to attend the court. To challenge the array (Law), to except to the whole panel. Cowell. Tomlins. Blount. -- Commission of array (Eng. Hist.), a commission given by the prince to officers in every county, to muster and array the inhabitants, or see them in a condition for war. Blackstone.

and overdue, after payment of a part; arrears. The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.

a demoniac; raving; mad; crack-brained. [Obs.] Odd, arreptitious, frantic extravagances. Howell.

To strew or sprinkle with ashes. Howell.

The rough breathing; a mark placed over an initial vowel sound or over h before it; thus hws, pronounced h, hrj'twr, pronounced hra\'b6t.

ng, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.

ng up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

A collection of inanimate objects. [Obs.] Howell.

An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl.

number, quantity, quality, weight, measure, etc.; as, rent of assize. Glanvill. Spelman. Cowell. Blackstone. Tomlins. Burrill.

A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.…

A falconer who keeps a goschawk. [Obs.] Shak. Cowell. [Written also austringer.]

or hypochondriac; atrabiliary. Dunglision. A hard-faced, atrabilious, earnest-eyed race. Lowell. He was constitutionally atrabilious and scornful. Froude.

Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys (Mus.), the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant, its fifth below (fourth above), or subdominant, and its relative min…