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One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter.

Act of rising. The . . . assurgency of the spirit through the body. Coleridge.

Ascending; (Bot.)

That assures; tending to assure; giving confidence. -- As*sur"ing*ly, adv.

See Assuage.

Of or pertaining to Assyria, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or an inhabitant of Assyria; the language of Assyria.

Of or pertaining to Assyriology; as, Assyriological studies.

One versed in Assyriology; a student of Assyrian archæology.

The science or study of the antiquities, language, etc., of ancient Assyria.

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

A silver coin of Persia, worth about twenty cents.

The grass that grows after the first crop has been mown; aftermath.

One of the cultivated forms of Andropogon Halepensis (syn. Sorghum Halepense). See Andropogon, below.

A plant (Macrochloa tenacissima) of North Africa; also, its fiber, used in paper making.

To collect into a mass or heap; to gather a great quantity of; to accumulate; as, to amass a treasure or a fortune; to amass words or phrases. The life Homer has been written by amassing all the traditions and hints the writers could meet with. Pope.

Capable of being amassed.

One who amasses.

An instrument of horn used for collecting painters' colors on the stone in the process of grinding.

An amassing; a heap collected; a large quantity or number brought together; an accumulation. An amassment of imaginary conceptions. Glanvill.

The mission of an ambassador. [Obs.] Carew.