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impose a tax or fine upon (a person, community, estate, or income); to tax; as, the club assessed each member twenty- five cents.

Liable to be assessed or taxed; as, assessable property.

One who is assessed.

A sitting beside or near.

The act of assessing; the act of determining an amount to be paid; as, an assessment of damages, or of taxes; an assessment of the members of a club.

t a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W.

Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe.

The office or function of an assessor.

A joint assessor.

A renewed or second assessment.

To assess or reduce, as an arbitrary penalty or amercement, to a certain and reasonable sum. Amercements . . . were affeered by the judges. Blackstone.

To assess; to value; to rate. [Obs.] Gower.

ge means a kind of composition established by usage for such charges, which were formerly assessed by way of average. Arnould. Abbott. Phillips.

See Assessment, 4. At call, or On call, liable to be demanded at any moment without previous notice; as money on deposit. -- Call bird, a bird taught to allure others into a snare. -- Call boy (a) A boy who calls the actors in a theater; a boy who transmits the orders of the captain of a vessel to the engineer, helms…

To compute, appraise, or assess the capital value of (a patent right, an annuity, etc.)

To rate; to tax; to assess. Spenser.

An assessment or tax. [Obs.] Johnson.

An assessor. [Obs.]

An assessment equal to a fourth part of the revenue. [India] J. Mill.

erature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members. They talked At wine, in clubs, of art, of politics. Tennyson. He [Goldsmith] was one of the nine original members of that celebrated fraternity which has sometimes been called the Liter…