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Fr. _asper_, dur, rude, baton noueux; Gl. Roquefort.
ASPRIANCE, _s._
V. ~Asperans~.
_To_ a.s.s, _v. a._ To ask.
_Henrysone._
Germ. _eisch-en_, Fran. _eiscon_, interrogare.
a.s.s, _s._ Ashes.
V. ~As~.
_To_ a.s.sAILYIE, _v. a._ To attack, to a.s.sail.
_Wallace._
Fr. _a.s.saill-ir_; L. B. _adsal-ire_, _a.s.sal-ire_, invadere, aggredi.
a.s.sAYIS, _s._ a.s.size, convention.
_Wyntown._
a.s.sEDATION, _s._
1. A lease; a term still commonly used in our legal deeds, S.
_Balfour._
2. The act of letting in lease.
L. B. _a.s.sedatio_.
_Chalmerl. Air._
_To_ a.s.sEGE, _v. a._ To besiege.
_Wyntown._
Fr. _a.s.sieg-er_, L. B. _a.s.sidiare_, obsidere; from Lat. _ad_, and _sedeo_.
_To_ a.s.sEMBLE, _v. n._ To join in battle.
_Wyntown._
Fr. _a.s.sembl-er_, from Su. G. _saml-a_, Germ. _saml-en_, Belg.
_zamel-en_, congregare; from Su. G. and Germ. _sam_, a prefix denoting a.s.sociation and conjunction.
a.s.sEMBLe, _s._ Engagement, battle.
_Wyntown._
a.s.sENYHE, _s._ The word of war.
Corr. from ~Ensenyie~, q. v.
_Barbour._
a.s.sILAG, _s._ The stormy petrel, a bird; Procellaria pelagica, Linn.
_Martin._
Perhaps from Gael. _eascal_, Ir. _eashal_, a storm.
a.s.sILTRIE, _s._ An axle-tree.
_Douglas._
Fr. _a.s.seul_, Ital. _a.s.sile_, axis.
_To_ a.s.sYTH, a.s.sYITH, SYITH, SITHE, _v. a._ To make a composition to another, to satisfy, Old E. _a.s.seeth_, _a.s.seth_, id.
_Acts Ja. I._
Lat. _ad_ and A. S. _sithe_, vice; Skinner. Rather from Su. G. and Isl. _saett-a_ conciliare; reconciliare. Ir. and Gael. _sioth-am_, to make atonement.
a.s.sYTH, a.s.sYTHMENT, SYTH, SITHEMENT, _s._ Compensation, satisfaction, atonement for an offence. _a.s.sythment_ is still used as a forensic term.
S. O. E. _aseeth_, Wiclif.
_Wyntown._
This word is still in use in our courts of law, as denoting satisfaction for an injury done to any party.
Su. G. _saett_, reconciliation, or the fine paid in order to procure it.
