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The felonious removal of goods from the place where they were deposited.

e kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods.

Selected; culled.

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves.

Deadly nightshade.

An herbaceous plant of the Barberry family (Epimedium alpinum), having leaves that are bitter and said to be sudorific.

A scale of wind force devised by Sir F. Beaufort, R. N., in 1805, in which the force is indicated by numbers from 0 to 12.

To befall. [Poetic] I wish all good befortune you. Shak.

A genus of plants (Uvularia) with yellowish bell-shaped flowers.

To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. [Obs.] Such men as may besort your age. Shak.

A genus of herbs and shrubs (Aristolochia), reputed to have medicinal properties.

Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush.

An herbaceous plant of the genus Polygonum, section Bistorta; snakeweed; adderwort. Its root is used in medicine as an astringent.

The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible. -- Blame"wor`thi*ness, n.

of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.

A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

See Bort.