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The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support. Without the assistance of a mortal hand. Shak.

ng; lending aid or support; auxiliary. Genius and learning . . . are mutually and greatly assistant to each other. Beattie.

In a manner to give aid. [R.]

An assistant; a helper.

Helpful.

Lending aid, helping.

Without aid or help. [R.] Pope.

A assister.

See Assythment. [Obs.]

An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business. [Obs.]

An officer who has the care or inspection of weights and measures, etc.

A juror.

To make or keep sober. [Obs.] Gower.

The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. "The associability of feelings." H. Spencer.

Capable of being associated or joined. We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer.

Associability.

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

Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison.

The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.

The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. "Some . . . bond of association." Hooker. Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle.