v. t.
Refreshing winds the summer's heat assuage. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
The fount at which the panting mind assuages
Her thirst of knowledge. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To abate or subside. [ Archaic ] “The waters assuaged.” Gen. vii. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]
The plague being come to a crisis, its fury began to assuage. De Foe. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OF. assouagement, asuagement. ] Mitigation; abatement. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who, or that which, assuages. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. OF. mesuage, masnage, LL. messuagium, mansionaticum, fr. L. mansio, -onis, a staying, remaining, dwelling, fr. manere, mansum, to stay, remain, E. mansion, manse. ] (Law) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household. Cowell. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]
They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds,
To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To assuage. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]