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A chair with arms to support the elbows or forearms. Tennyson.

a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone.

One who arraigns. Coleridge.

The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.

Clothes; raiment. [Obs.]

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.…

That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.

One who ascertains.

The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.

A spear used by tribes in South Africa as a missile and for stabbing, a kind of light javelin.

A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.

tack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

Capable of being assailed.

Assailing; attacking. Milton.

One who assails.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

Same as Assagai.

The sloth bear (Melursus labiatus) of India.

To achieve or accomplish, that is, to reach by efforts; to gain; to compass; as, to attain rest. Is he wise who hopes to attain the end without the means Abp. Tillotson.

The quality of being attainable; attainbleness.