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To maintain; to defend. [Obs. or Archaic] That . . . I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Milton. I will assert it from the scandal. Jer. Taylor.

Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.

To make sure or certain; to render confident by a promise, declaration, or other evidence. His promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe . . . Assures me that the bitterness of death Is past, and we shall live. Milton.

ony; witness; a solemn or official declaration, verbal or written, in support of a fact; evidence. The truth appears from the attestation of witnesses, or of the proper officer. The subscription of a name to a writing as a witness, is an attestation.

Attesting; furnishing evidence.

Provided with antlers, as a stag.

Recognized by the ear; known by the sense of hearing; as, auricular evidence. "Auricular assurance." Shak.

A zitherlike musical instrument, provided with dampers which, when depressed, deaden some strings, leaving free others that form a chord.

An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses. [Obs.]

To divide among a number, according to a given proportion; as, to average a loss.

Verification; establishment by evidence. Bacon.

One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer. & Southwestern U. S.]

or. We might be disposed to question its authencity, it if were not avouched by the full evidence. Milman.

A self-evident and necessary truth, or a proposition whose truth is so evident as first sight that no reasoning or demonstration can make it plainer; a proposition which it is necessary to take for granted; as, "The whole is greater than a part;" "A thing can not, at the same time, be and not be."

Of or pertaining to an axiom; having the nature of an axiom; self-evident; characterized by axioms. "Axiomatical truth." Johnson. The stores of axiomatic wisdom. I. Taylor.

f a curve; called a principal axis, when cutting them at right angles, in which case it divides the curve into two symmetrical portions, as in the parabola, which has one such axis, the ellipse, which has two, or the circle, which has an infinite number. The two axes of the ellipse are the major axis and the minor axis…

One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

A child. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] Has he not well provided for the bairn ! Beau. & Fl.

Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly, in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as, the bar of the House of Commons.

, Divided into bars; -- said of the field.