APage 491
- English Word Assiduous Definition Performed with constant diligence or attention; unremitting; persistent; as, assiduous labor.
- English Word Assiege Definition To besiege.
- English Word Assiege Definition A siege.
- English Word Assientist Definition A shareholder of the Assiento company; one of the parties to the Assiento contract.
- English Word Assiento Definition A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.
- English Word Assign Definition To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
- English Word Assign Definition To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial.
- English Word Assign Definition To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
- English Word Assign Definition A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
- English Word Assign Definition A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.
- English Word Assignability Definition The quality of being assignable.
- English Word Assignable Definition Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity.
- English Word Assignat Definition One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.
- English Word Assignation Definition The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment.
- English Word Assignation Definition An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense.
- English Word Assignation Definition A making over by transfer of title; assignment.
- English Word Assigned Definition of Assign
- English Word Assignee Definition A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor.
- English Word Assignee Definition In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors.
- English Word Assigner Definition One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions.