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To make fit. [Obs.] Bailey

An archon's term of office. Gibbon.

Constriction or contraction of some natural passage, as in constipation from inflammation.

Silvery white. Gray.

A coating or overlaying with silver. [R.] Johnson.

e, from facts or principles known, admitted, or proved to be true. Which manner of argumentation, how false and naught it is, . . . every man that hath with perceiveth. Tyndale.

sting of, or characterized by, argument; containing a process of reasoning; as, an argumentative discourse.

Caviling; subtle disputation. [Obs.]

To butt, as a ram. [Obs.]

The act of butting like a ram; act of using a battering-ram. [Obs.] Bacon.

Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.

The Anglicized form of the French arpenteur, a land surveyor. [R.]

A letting or renting, esp. a license to inclose land in a forest with a low hedge and a ditch, under a yearly rent.

Arrest. [R.] The arrestation of the English resident in France was decreed by the National Convention. H. M. Williams.

The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

us assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence. Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.

An obsequious; a flatterer. [R.]

Flattering; obsequious. [Obs.] -- As*sent"a*to*ri*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Estate; state. [Obs.] Chaucer.

xed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction. Astatic pair (Magnetism), a pair of magnetic needles so mounted as to be nearly or quite astatic, as in some galvanometers.