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To assassinate. [Obs.] Stillingfleet.

nce. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

The act of assassinating; a killing by treacherous violence.

An assassin.

Murderous. Milton.

A daring villain; a bandit; one who sets law at defiance; a professional assassin or murderer. Safe from detection, seize the unwary prey. And stab, like bravoes, all who come this way. Churchill.

A guerrilla; a marauding assassin; one who pretends to be a peaceful citizen, but secretly harasses a hostile force or its sympathizers. [U.S.] Farrow.

One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.

afe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. Macaulay.

A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin. [Obs.] Milton.

anger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction. The imminent and constant risk of assassination, a risk which has shaken very strong nerves. Macaulay.

as in fortification, for ballast, etc. (b) A long bag filled with sand, used as a club by assassins. -- Sand ball, soap mixed with sand, made into a ball for use at the toilet. -- Sand bath. (a) (Chem.) A vessel of hot sand in a laboratory, in which vessels that are to be heated are partially immersed. (b) A bath in…

them, prayed, and with no simulated fervor, that she might be kept from the dagger of the assassin. Macaulay.

A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin. Shak.

or a part (as, the smiling year for spring), the species for the genus (as, cutthroat for assassin), the genus for the species (as, a creature for a man), the name of the material for the thing made, etc. Bain.