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like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods.

Selected; culled.

Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes.

To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become. [Obs.] Such men as may besort your age. Shak.

arser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser. Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak.

Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings.

To divide or separate, as into classes, orders, kinds, or species; to classify; to assort, as specimens, letters, etc.

tributing past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

Pertaining to the household; domestic. "In this economical misfortune [of ill-assorted matrimony.]" Milton.

A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

collection of articles which naturally complement each other, and usually go together; an assortment; a suit; as, a set of chairs, of china, of surgical or mathematical instruments, of books, etc. [In this sense, sometimes incorrectly written sett.]

Assortiment. [Obs.]

One employed to assort wool according to its staple.

A number or collection of different things; a varied assortment; as, a variety of cottons and silks. He . . . wants more time to do that variety of good which his soul thirsts after. Law.