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Soul. [Obs.]

A hired mourner at a funeral. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A rapid in some rivers; as, the Sault Ste. Marie. [U.S.] Bartlett.

apons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town. The Spanish general prepared to renew the assault. Prescott. Unshaken bears the assault Of their most dreaded foe, the strong southwest. Wordsworth.

Capable of being assaulted.

One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant. E. Hall.

heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end. [Written also summersault, sommerset, summerset, etc.] "The vaulter's sombersalts." Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl.

See Somersault, Somerset.

The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack. [Obs.]

first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

ion. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.

Anything which a man takes in his hand in anger, to strike or assault another with; an aggressive weapon. Cowell. Blackstone.

To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery. No rude noise mine ears assailing. Cowper. No storm can now assail The charm he wears within. Keble.

One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer. An assailant of the church. Macaulay.

The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.] His most frequent assailment was the headache. Johnson.

One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.

To kill by surprise or secret assault; to murder by treacherous violence. Help, neighbors, my house is broken open by force, and I am ravished, and like to be assassinated. Dryden.

To fall upon with force; to assail, as with force and arms; to assault. "Attack their lines." Dryden.

An attempt; an assault. [Obs.] Bacon.