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. [R.] "The basilisk killeth by aspect." Bacon. His aspect was bent on the ground. Sir W. Scott.

h desire. "Aspirations after virtue." Johnson. Vague aspiration after military renown. Prescott.

ult upon a man, a house, or a town. The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

the credit of the proposer. Locke. The assent, if not the approbation, of the prince. Prescott. Too many people read this ribaldry with assent and admiration. Macaulay. Royal assent, in England, the assent of the sovereign to a bill which has passed both houses of Parliament, after which it becomes law.…

which his lot had been assigned. Southey. He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott.

formity; 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.

To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott.

solve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott.

young knight of lesser renown and lower rank, assumed into that honorable company. Sir W. Scott.

Indemnification for injury; satisfaction. [Chiefly in Scots law]

d. [Archaic] Spenser. Thus Ellen, dizzy and astound. As sudden ruin yawned around. Sir W. Scott.

Stranded. Sir W. Scott.

egs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.

Subtle; cunning; astute. [R.] Sir W. Scott. -- As*tu"cious*ly, adv. [R.]

ns they might attain to Phenice. Acts xxvii. 12. Nor nearer might the dogs attain. Sir W. Scott. To see your trees attain to the dignity of timber. Cowper. Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this. J. R. Green.

A touch or hit. Sir W. Scott.

e train; accompanying; in waiting. From the attendant flotilla rang notes triumph. Sir W. Scott. Cherub and Seraph . . . attendant on their Lord. Milton.

Property; possession. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

s from signs or omens; to betoken; to presage; to infer. It seems to augur genius. Sir W. Scott. I augur everything from the approbation the proposal has met with. J. F. W. Herschel.

esigned himself . . . with a docility that gave little augury of his future greatness. Prescott.