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Assemblage a second time or again.

To assemble again.

To assert again or anew; to maintain after an omission to do so. Let us hope . . . we may have a body of authors who will reassert our claim to respectability in literature. Walsh.

A second or renewed assertion of the same thing.

A renewed or second assessment.

A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable. [Obs.] Pepys.

A Saxon; an Englishman; a Lowlander. [Celtic] Sir W. Scott.

asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; hence, putting one's self forward in a confident or assuming manner.

The act of asserting one's self, or one's own rights or claims; the quality of being self-asserting.

Disposed to self-assertion; self-asserting.

A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet.

and ripened, Till it stood in all the splendor Of its garments green and yellow, Of its tassels and its plumage. Longfellow.

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

One who commits a trespass; as:

Not assented; -- said specif. of stocks or bonds the holders of which refuse to deposit them by way of assent to an agreement altering their status, as in a readjustment.

Not embarrassed. Specifically: --

The waste liquor remaining in the process of making beet sugar, -- used in the manufacture of potassium carbonate.

See under Assembly.

Any one of numerous edible, marine, spiny-finned fishes of the genus Labrus, of which several species are found in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast of Europe. Many of the species are bright- colored.

reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.