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A body of persons organized for the advancement of a cause; as, the Blue Ribbon Army.

A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

Arrest of judgment (Law), the staying or stopping of a judgment, after verdict, for legal cause. The motion for this purpose is called a motion in arrest of judgment.

One of the larger divisions of Crustacea, so called because the thorax and abdomen are both segmented; Tetradecapoda. It includes the Amphipoda and Isopoda.

Because; since; it being the case that. As the population of Scotland had been generally trained to arms . . . they were not indifferently prepared. Sir W. Scott. [See Synonym under Because.]

A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea, caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.

To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise. [Obs.] When the blessed Virgin was so ascertained. Jer. Taylor. Muncer assured them that the design was approved of by Heaven, and that the Almighty had in a dream ascertained him of its effects. Robertson.…

To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author. The finest [speech] that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. Addison.

An assembling; assemblage. [Obs.] To weete [know] the cause of their assemblance. Spenser.

o asseverate. Nothing is more shameful . . . than to assert anything to be done without a cause. Ray.

r. The assertors of liberty said not a word. Macaulay. Faithful assertor of thy country's cause. Prior.

eased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.

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

To bring 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.

Tending to, or characterized by, assimilation; that assimilates or causes assimilation; as, an assimilative process or substance.

of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. Porter.

nd assoiled from the guilt. Dr. H. More. Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are . . . not of scandalous lives. Jer. Taylor.

To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress. Which contraction . . . astringeth the moistuBacon.

of contracting the parts of the body; that quality in medicines or other substances which causes contraction of the organic textures; as, the astringency of tannin.

distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, constitution, physical condition, and of the causes of their various phenomena.