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A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas.

meet or come together, as a number of individuals; to convene; to congregate. Dryden. The Parliament assembled in November. W. Massey.

assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law.

Any article or separable part of one's assets.

Constant or close application or attention, particularly to some business or enterprise; diligence. I have, with much pains and assiduity, qualified myself for a nomenclator. Addison.

A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract. Bancroft.

An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court.

To change and appropriate nourishment so as to make it a part of the substance of the assimilating body. Aliment easily assimilated or turned into blood. Arbuthnot.

To lend aid; to help. With God not parted from him, as was feared, But favoring and assisting to the end. Milton.

Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc. The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body. Med. Rep.

To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with .

Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting…

An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme. How Pennsylvania's air agrees with Quakers, And Carolina's with associators. Dryden.

ral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. Wharton.

The point on the side of the skull where the lambdoid, parieto- mastoid and occipito-mastoid sutures.

Three asterisks placed in this manner, *, to direct attention to a particular passage.

In or at the hinder part of a ship; toward the hinder part, or stern; backward; as, to go astern.

ilk vetch and licorice vetch. Gum tragacanth is obtained from different oriental species, particularly the A. gummifer and A. verus.

To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot.

A contraction of parts by applications; the action of an astringent substance on the animal economy. Dunglison.