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Any article or separable part of one's assets.

of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and legatees, so far as such goods or estate may extend. Story. Blackstone.

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

ice. Some dress, some dance, some play, not to forget Your piquet parties, and your dear basset. Rowe.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

A small kind of hound with a long body and short legs, used as an earth dog.

The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.

A tenor or small bass viol.

See Brassart.

Same as Seggar.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

The large muscle which raises the under jaw, and assists in mastication.

Of or pertaining to the masseter.

Masseteric.

A defense for the front of the thigh, consisting of one or more iron plates hanging from the belt on the lower edge of the corselet.

reduce. Legacies are liable to be abated entirely or in proportion, upon a deficiency of assets. To abate a tax, to remit it either wholly or in part.

ther; -- also, used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

Waste or misapplication of the assets of a deceased person by an executor or an administrator. Bouvier.

ng known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next [world]. South.

hare, or percentage; -- applied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.