In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Company; group; collection; concourse; gathering; meeting; convention. Assemblage, Assembly. An assembly consists only of persons; an assemblage may be composed of things as well as persons, as, an assemblage of incoherent objects. Nor is every assemblage of persons an assembly; since the latter term denotes a body who have met, and are acting, in concert for some common end, such as to hear, to deliberate, to unite in music, dancing, etc. An assemblage of skaters on a lake, or of horse jockeys at a race course, is not an assembly, but might be turned into one by collecting into a body with a view to discuss and decide as to some object of common interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

Care I for the . . . stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An assembling; assemblage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To weete [ know ] the cause of their assemblance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bribes may be assembled to pitch. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To collect and put together the parts of; as, to assemble a bicycle, watch, gun, or other manufactured article. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

The Parliament assembled in November. W. Massey. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 1 formed by fitting or joining components together.
Syn. -- built(prenominal), made-up. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Computers) a computer program that takes as input a set of instructions written in assembly language, and produces a corresponding executable computer program in machine language. [ PJC ]

3. (Computers) same as assembly language. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

2. A collection of inanimate objects. [ Obs. ] Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Mil.) A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General Assembly is the highest ecclesiastical tribunal, composed of ministers and ruling elders delegated from each presbytery; as, the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, or of Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assembly room, a room in which persons assemble, especially for dancing. --
Unlawful assembly (Law), a meeting of three or more persons on a common plan, in such a way as to cause a reasonable apprehension that they will disturb the peace tumultuously. --
Westminster Assembly, a convocation, consisting chiefly of divines, which, by act of Parliament, assembled July 1, 1643, and remained in session some years. It framed the “Confession of Faith, ” the “Larger Catechism, ” and the “Shorter Catechism, ” which are still received as authority by Presbyterians, and are substantially accepted by Congregationalists. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- See Assemblage. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: With reference to the end of the year and to the winter season; as, the December of his life. [ 1913 Webster ]

He recalls the history of the decembrists . . . that gallant band of revolutionists. G. Kennan. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Computers) to convert a computer program in machine language into an equivalent assembly-language file. [ PJC ]

Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

To disembarrass himself of his companion. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) To disarm and disband, as a body of soldiers. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

Volcanos bellow ere they disembogue. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rolling down, the steep Timavus raves,
And through nine channels disembogues his waves. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To eject; to cast forth. [ R. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

Soon after their death, they are disemboweled. Cook. [ 1913 Webster ]

Roaring floods and cataracts that sweep
From disemboweled earth the virgin gold. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To take or draw from the body, as the web of a spider. [ R. ] “Her disemboweled web.” J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vaillant has disembroiled a history that was lost to the world before his time. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fowls obscene dismembered his remains. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

A society lacerated and dismembered. Gladstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

By whose hands the blow should be struck which would dismember that once mighty empire. Buckle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive of membership. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They were dismembered by vote of the house. R. North.

Syn. -- To disjoint; dislocate; dilacerate; mutilate; divide; sever. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Castilians would doubtless have resented the dismemberment of the unwieldy body of which they formed the head. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]