Assailant
(As*sail"ant), n. [F. assaillant.] One who, or that which, assails, attacks, or assaults; an assailer.
An assailant of the church.
Macaulay.
Assailer
(As*sail"er) n. One who assails.
Assailment
(As*sail"ment) n. The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.]
His most frequent assailment was the headache.
Johnson.
Assamar
(As"sa*mar) n. [L. assare to roast + amarus, bitter.] (Chem.) The peculiar bitter substance,
soft or liquid, and of a yellow color, produced when meat, bread, gum, sugar, starch, and the like, are
roasted till they turn brown.
Assamese
(As`sam*ese") a. Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or to its inhabitants.
— n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Assam.
Assapan
(||As`sa*pan" ||As`sa*pan"ic) n. [Prob. Indian name.] (Zoöl.) The American flying squirrel
Assart
(As*sart") n. [OF. essart the grubbing up of trees, fr. essarter to grub up or clear ground of
bushes, shrubs, trees, etc., fr. LL. exartum, exartare, for exsaritare; L. ex + sarire, sarrire, saritum,
to hoe, weed.]
1. (Old Law) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or
coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.
2. A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash.
Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush.
Assart
(As*sart"), v. t. To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees. Ashmole.
Assassin
(As*sas"sin) n. [F. (cf. It. assassino), fr. Ar. &lsquohashishin one who has drunk of the
hashish. Under its influence the Assassins of the East, followers of the Shaikh al-Jabal were said to
commit the murders required by their chief.] One who kills, or attempts to kill, by surprise or secret
assault; one who treacherously murders any one unprepared for defense.
Assassin
(As*sas"sin), v. t. To assassinate. [Obs.] Stillingfleet.
Assassinate
(As*sas"sin*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Assassinated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Assassinating ] [LL.
assassinatus, p. p. of assassinare.]
1. 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.
2. To assail with murderous intent; hence, by extended meaning, to maltreat exceedingly. [Archaic]
Your rhymes assassinate our fame.
Dryden.
Such usage as your honorable lords
Afford me, assassinated and betrayed.
Milton.
Syn. — To kill; murder; slay. See Kill.
Assassinate
(As*sas"sin*ate) n. [F. assassinat.]
