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v. t. [ L. adsignificare to show. ] To denote additionally. [ R. ] Tooke. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. aligner; à (L. ad) + ligne (L. linea) line. See Line, and cf. Allineate. ] To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To form in line; to fall into line. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. 1 in or brought into line with or into proper relative position; -- of spatial position. well-aligned wheels unaligned
Syn. -- alined [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

2. brought into agreement or cooperation on the side of a faction, party, or cause. Opposite of nonaligned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. brought into a straight or uniformly curved line. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. 1 bringing into alignment
Syn. -- positioning [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. alignement. ] 1. The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate the formation of troops or of a squadron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Engin.) The ground-plan of a railway or other road, in distinction from the grades or profile. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Alignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a sign language, used in the United States mostly by the deaf or for communication with the deaf, in which gestures made with the hands symbolize words, alphabetical letters, or ideas, permitting rapid communication in the absence of speech.
Syn. -- Ameslan. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Arraigned p. pr. & vb. n. Arraigning. ] [ OE. arainen, arenen, OF. aragnier, aranier, araisnier, F. arraisonner, fr. LL. arrationare to address to call before court; L. ad + ratio reason, reasoning, LL. cause, judgment. See Reason. ] 1. (Law) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. [ 1913 Webster ]

They will not arraign you for want of knowledge. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See Accuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns. Blackstone. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ From OF. aramier, fr. LL. adhramire. ] (Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who arraigns. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. arraynement, aresnement. ] 1. (Law) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A calling to an account to faults; accusation. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Assigned p. pr. & vb. n. Assigning. ] [ OE. assignen, asignen, F. assigner, fr. L. assignare; ad + signare to mark, mark out, designate, signum mark, sign. See Sign. ] 1. To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the order I assign to them. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station than that in which his lot had been assigned. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

He assigned to his men their several posts. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fix, specify, select, or designate; to point out authoritatively or exactly; as, to assign a limit; to assign counsel for a prisoner; to assign a day for trial. [ 1913 Webster ]

All as the dwarf the way to her assigned. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is not easy to assign a period more eventful. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Law) To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors. [ 1913 Webster ]

To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. (Law) To transfer or pass over property to another, whether for the benefit of the assignee or of the assignor's creditors, or in furtherance of some trust. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ From Assign, v. ] A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns, as girdles, hangers, and so. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Assignee. ] (Law) A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being assignable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated; as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignable quantity. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. assignat, fr. L. assignatus, p. p. of assignare. ] One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France (1790-1796), and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. assignatio, fr. assignare: cf. F. assignation. ] 1. The act of assigning or allotting; apportionment. [ 1913 Webster ]

This order being taken in the senate, as touching the appointment and assignation of those provinces. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

While nymphs take treats, or assignations give. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A making over by transfer of title; assignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

House of assignation, a house in which appointments for sexual intercourse are fulfilled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. assigné, p. p. of assigner. See Assign, v., and cf. Assign an assignee. ] (Law) (a) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act, perform some business, or enjoy some right, privilege, or property; as, an assignee of a bankrupt. See Assignment (c). An assignee may be by special appointment or deed, or be created by jaw; as an executor. Cowell. Blount. (b) pl. In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who assigns, appoints, allots, or apportions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. assignamentum: cf. OF. assenement. ] 1. An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) (a) A transfer of title or interest by writing, as of lease, bond, note, or bill of exchange; a transfer of the whole of some particular estate or interest in lands. (b) The writing by which an interest is transferred. (c) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assignment of dower, the setting out by metes and bounds of the widow's thirds or portion in the deceased husband's estate, and allotting it to her. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Assignment is also used in law as convertible with specification; assignment of error in proceedings for review being specification of error; and assignment of perjury or fraud in indictment being specifications of perjury or fraud. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. assignator. Cf. Assigner. ] (Law) An assigner; a person who assigns or transfers an interest; as, the assignor of a debt or other chose in action. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The fruit of the Rhamnus infectorius, eand of other species of the same genus; -- so called from the city of Avignon, in France. It is used by dyers and painters for coloring yellow. Called also French berry. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. baigner to bathe, fr. L. balneum bath. ] To soak or drench. [ Obs. ] Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Written also baignoir. ] [ F., lit., bath tub. ] A box of the lowest tier in a theater. Du Maurier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ OE. benigne, bening, OF. benigne, F. bénin, fem. bénigne, fr. L. benignus, contr. from benigenus; bonus good + root of genus kind. See Bounty, and Genus. ] 1. Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant. [ 1913 Webster ]

Creator bounteous and benign. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome. [ 1913 Webster ]

Kind influences and benign aspects. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Kind; propitious; bland; genial; salubrious; favorable salutary; gracious; liberal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Benignant quality; kindliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. benignans, p. pr. of benignare, from L. benignus. See Benign. ] Kind; gracious; favorable. -- Be*nig"nant*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ OE. benignite, F. bénignité, OF. bénigneté, fr. L. benignitas. See Benign. ] 1. The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. “Benignity of aspect.” Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mildness; gentleness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The benignity or inclemency of the season. Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Salubrity; wholesome quality. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a benign manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. [ Named from the Abbé Bignon. ] 1. (Bot.) A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. Bignonia capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper (also called the trumpet vine), with large red tubular flowers, was formerly considered to be of this genus, but is now classified as Campsis radicans. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

2. any member of the family Bignoniaceae, including the bignonia{ 1 }, catalpa, trumpet creeper, and princess tree. They typically have brightly colored tubular (trumpet-shaped) flowers. [ PJC ]

n. a natural family comprising the trees or shrubs or woody vines or herbs having gourdlike or capsular fruit; the are sometimes placed in the order Scrophulariales.
Syn. -- family Bignoniaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Bot.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower (also called trumpet creeper and trumpet vine) is an example. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Railroads) One of the danger signals or safety signals which guide the movement of trains in a block system. The signal is often so coupled with a switch that act of opening or closing the switch operates the signal also. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. campagne, It. campagna, fr. L. Campania the level country about Naples, fr. campus field. See Camp, and cf. Champaign, Champagne. ] 1. An open field; a large, open plain without considerable hills. SeeChampaign. Grath. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mil.) A connected series of military operations forming a distinct stage in a war; the time during which an army keeps the field. Wilhelm. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Political operations preceding an election, by candidates, their assistants, and supporters, for the purpose of convincing voters to vote for the candidate. It usually consists of one or more methods of contacting voters including advertising, distribution or mailing of printed leaflets or letters; speeches, interviews with news media, and door-to-door visits with potential voters. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. Hence: Any coordinated effort to contact potential supporters or customers and solicit their support or patronage; as, an advertising campaign. [ PJC ]

5. (Metal.) The period during which a blast furnace is continuously in operation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To serve in a campaign. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who has served in an army in several campaigns; an old soldier; a veteran. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. one who is campaigning, especially a politician running for elective office, or one of his/her supporters. [ PJC ]

n. The campaign of a candidate to be elected.
Syn. -- candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Carrion. ] Dead body; carrion. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flat; open; level. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wide, champaign country, filled with herds. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. champaigne; same word as campagne. ] A flat, open country. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fair champaign, with less rivers interveined. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Through Apline vale or champaign wide. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a mushroom, ultimately fr. L. campus field. See Camp. ] (Bot.) An edible species of mushroom (Agaricus campestris). [ 1913 Webster ]

Fairy ring champignon, the Marasmius oreades, which has a strong flavor but is edible. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., prop. equiv. to chaînon link, fr. chaîne chain, fr. L. catena Cf. Chain. ] A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by a woman at the back of the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

A curl that had strayed from her chignon. H. James. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. coeruleus cerulean + lignum wood + E. quinone. ] (Chem.) A bluish violet, crystalline substance obtained in the purification of crude wood vinegar. It is regarded as a complex quinone derivative of diphenyl; -- called also cedriret. [ 1913 Webster ]