English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Assortment
(n.)
A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds
adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of
goods.
Assortment
(n.)
A collection or quantity of things distributed into
kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted.
Assortment
(n.)
Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or
classes.
Assot
(a.)
Dazed; foolish; infatuated.
Assot
(v. t.)
To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate.
Assuage
(v. i.)
To abate or subside.
Assuage
(v. t.)
To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate,
ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as
passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
Assuaged
(imp. & p. p.)
of Assuage
Assuagement
(n.)
Mitigation; abatement.
Assuager
(n.)
One who, or that which, assuages.
Assuaging
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Assuage
Assuasive
(a.)
Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.
Assubjugate
(v. t.)
To bring into subjection.
Assuefaction
(n.)
The act of accustoming, or the state of being
accustomed; habituation.
Assuetude
(n.)
Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.
Assumable
(a.)
That may be assumed.
Assumably
(adv.)
By way of assumption.
Assume
(v. i.)
To undertake, as by a promise.
Assume
(v. t.)
To pretend to possess; to take in appearance.
Assume
(v. t.)
To take for granted, or without proof; to suppose as a
fact; to suppose or take arbitrarily or tentatively.