a. Of or pertaining to an accessory; as, accessorial agency, accessorial guilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner of an accessory; auxiliary. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being accessory, or connected subordinately. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. accessorius. See Access, and cf. Accessary. ] Accompanying as a subordinate; aiding in a secondary way; additional; connected as an incident or subordinate to a principal; contributing or contributory; said of persons and things, and, when of persons, usually in a bad sense; as, he was accessory to the riot; accessory sounds in music. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Ash accents the antepenult; and this is not only more regular, but preferable, on account of easiness of pronunciation. Most orhoëpists place the accent on the first syllable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Accompanying; contributory; auxiliary; subsidiary; subservient; additional; acceding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Accessories 1. That which belongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. “The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti.” Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Same as Accessary, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Fine Arts) Anything that enters into a work of art without being indispensably necessary, as mere ornamental parts. Elmes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Abettor; accomplice; ally; coadjutor. See Abettor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a printer that automatically prints addresses on letters for mailing.
Syn. -- addressing machine [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Pertaining to admission. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L.: cf. F. agresseur. ] The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A secret organization in the United States, formed in Iowa in 1887, ostensibly for the protection of American institutions by keeping Roman Catholics out of public office. Abbrev. commonly to A. P .A. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L., fr. antecedere, antecessum. See Antecede, Ancestor. ] 1. One who goes before; a predecessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

The successor seldom prosecuting his antecessor's devices. Sir E. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An ancestor; a progenitor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., one who sits beside, the assistant of a judge, fr. assid&unr_;re. See Assession. LL., one who arranges of determines the taxes, fr. assid&unr_;re. See Assess, v., and cf. Cessor. ] 1. One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors. Mozley & W. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whence to his Son,
The assessor of his throne, he thus began. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

With his ignorance, his inclinations, and his fancy, as his assessors in judgment. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. assessorial, fr. L. assessor. ] Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors. Coxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or function of an assessor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. ad- + sober. Cf. Ensober. ] To make or keep sober. [ Obs. ] Gower. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being associable, or capable of association; associableness. “The associability of feelings.” H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Associate. ] 1. Capable of being associated or joined. [ 1913 Webster ]

We know feelings to be associable only by the proved ability of one to revive another. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sociable; companionable. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) Liable to be affected by sympathy with other parts; -- said of organs, nerves, muscles, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

The stomach, the most associable of all the organs of the animal body. Med. Rep. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Associability. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To unite in company; to keep company, implying intimacy; as, congenial minds are disposed to associate. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To unite in action, or to be affected by the action of a different part of the body. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Associated p. pr. & vb. n. Associating ] [ L. associatus, p. p. of associare; ad + sociare to join or unite, socius companion. See Social. ] 1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with us in business, or in an enterprise. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To connect or place together in thought. [ 1913 Webster ]

He succeeded in associating his name inseparably with some names which will last as long as our language. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To accompany; to keep company with. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Friends should associate friends in grief and woe. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. associatus, p. p. ] 1. Closely connected or joined with some other, as in interest, purpose, employment, or office; sharing responsibility or authority; as, an associate judge. [ 1913 Webster ]

While I descend . . . to my associate powers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Admitted to some, but not to all, rights and privileges; as, an associate member. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) Connected by habit or sympathy; as, associate motions, such as occur sympathetically, in consequence of preceding motions. E. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A companion; one frequently in company with another, implying intimacy or equality; a mate; a fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A partner in interest, as in business; or a confederate in a league. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One connected with an association or institution without the full rights or privileges of a regular member; as, an associate of the Royal Academy. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Anything closely or usually connected with another; an concomitant. [ 1913 Webster ]

The one [ idea ] no sooner comes into the understanding, than its associate appears with it. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Companion; mate; fellow; friend; ally; partner; coadjutor; comrade; accomplice. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Joined as a companion; brought into association; accompanying; combined. [ 1913 Webster ]

Associated movements (Physiol.), consensual movements which accompany voluntary efforts without our consciousness. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an associate degree conferred for successful studies in applied science.
Syn. -- AAS [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a college degree granted for successful completion of a two-year course of study in arts or general topics.
Syn. -- AA [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. association, LL. associatio, fr. L. associare. ] 1. The act of associating, or state of being associated; union; connection, whether of persons of things. “Some . . . bond of association.” Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

Self-denial is a kind of holy association with God. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mental connection, or that which is mentally linked or associated with a thing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Words . . . must owe their powers association. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why should . . . the holiest words, with all their venerable associations, be profaned? Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Union of persons in a company or society for some particular purpose; as, the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a benevolent association. Specifically, as among the Congregationalists, a society, consisting of a number of ministers, generally the pastors of neighboring churches, united for promoting the interests of religion and the harmony of the churches. [ 1913 Webster ]

Association of ideas (Physiol.), the combination or connection of states of mind or their objects with one another, as the result of which one is said to be revived or represented by means of the other. The relations according to which they are thus connected or revived are called the law of association. Prominent among them are reckoned the relations of time and place, and of cause and effect. Porter. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Of or pertaining to association, or to an association. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pertaining to the theory held by the associationists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Philos.) The doctrine or theory held by associationists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Philos.) One who explains the higher functions and relations of the soul by the association of ideas; e. g., Hartley, J. C. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the quality of associating; tending or leading to association; as, the associative faculty. Hugh Miller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An associate; a confederate or partner in any scheme. [ 1913 Webster ]

How Pennsylvania's air agrees with Quakers,
And Carolina's with associators. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. assoiler, absoiler, assoldre, F. absoudre, L. absolvere. See Absolve. ] 1. To set free; to release. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Till from her hands the spright assoiled is. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To solve; to clear up. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Any child might soon be able to assoil this riddle. Bp. Jewel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To set free from guilt; to absolve. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Acquitted and assoiled from the guilt. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

Many persons think themselves fairly assoiled, because they are . . . not of scandalous lives. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To expiate; to atone for. [ Archaic ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let each act assoil a fault. E. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To remove; to put off. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She soundly slept, and careful thoughts did quite assoil. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. ad- + soil. ] To soil; to stain. [ Obs. or Poet. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Act of assoiling, or state of being assoiled; absolution; acquittal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A soiling; defilement. [ 1913 Webster ]

, v. t. [ Old form assoil&yogh_;e. See Assoil. ] (Scots Law) To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. [ 1913 Webster ]

God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. assonance. See Assonant. ] 1. Resemblance of sound. “The disagreeable assonance of ‘sheath' and ‘sheathed.'” Steevens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) A peculiar species of rhyme, in which the last accented vowel and those which follow it in one word correspond in sound with the vowels of another word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Incomplete correspondence. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assonance between facts seemingly remote. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. assonans, p. pr. of assonare to sound to, to correspond to in sound; ad + sonare to sound, sonus sound: cf. F. assonant. See Sound. ] 1. Having a resemblance of sounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pros.) Pertaining to the peculiar species of rhyme called assonance; not consonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Assonant. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. assonare, assonatum, to respond to. ] To correspond in sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Assorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Assorting. ] [ F. assortir; &unr_; (L. ad) + sortir to cast or draw lots, to obtain by lot, L. sortiri, fr. sors, sortis, lot. See Sort. ] 1. To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [ Rarely applied to persons. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They appear . . . no ways assorted to those with whom they must associate. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To furnish with, or make up of, various sorts or a variety of goods; as, to assort a cargo. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To agree; to be in accordance; to be adapted; to suit; to fall into a class or place. Mitford. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Selected; culled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. assortiment. ] 1. Act of assorting, or distributing into sorts, kinds, or classes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection or quantity of things distributed into kinds or sorts; a number of things assorted. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A collection containing a variety of sorts or kinds adapted to various wants, demands, or purposes; as, an assortment of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. asoter, F. assoter; &unr_; (L. ad) + sot stupid. See Sot. ] To besot; to befool; to beguile; to infatuate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Some ecstasy assotted had his sense. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dazed; foolish; infatuated. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Willie, I ween thou be assot. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ It., fr. LL. bassus. See Base, a. ] (Mus.) (a) The bass or lowest part; as, to sing basso. (b) One who sings the lowest part. (c) The double bass, or contrabasso. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖Basso continuo [ It., bass continued. ] (Mus.) A bass part written out continuously, while the other parts of the harmony are indicated by figures attached to the bass; continued bass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A hassock. See 2d Bass, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. basson, fr. basse bass; or perh. fr. bas son low sound. See Bass a part in music. ] (Mus.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Its compass comprehends three octaves. For convenience of carriage it is divided into two parts; whence it is also called a fagot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A performer on the bassoon. Busby. [ 1913 Webster ]