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An assart, or clearing. [Obs.] Bailey.

Of or pertaining to a tailor or his work. Our legs skulked under the table as free from sartorial impertinences as those of the noblest savages. Lowell.

A muscle of the thigh, called the tailor's muscle, which arises from the hip bone and is inserted just below the knee. So named because its contraction was supposed to produce the position of the legs assumed by the tailor in sitting.

piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash. Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush.

Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

A system of calisthenics patterned on the theories of François Delsarte (1811 -- 71), a French teacher of dramatic and musical expression.

To sunder; to separate, as joints. -- Dis`ar*tic`u*la"tion, n.

One who disarticulates and prepares skeletons.

A manganesian variety of garnet.

A covering to protect the arm of the bowman from the vibration of the string; also, a brassart. Chaucer.

See Brassart.

Persistent portions of a calyx or corolla; also, leaves which do not disarticulate from the stem, and hence remain for a long time.

Forest land cleared, and converted to tillage; an assart. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]