As*sign" (&?;), 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.
In the order I assign to them.
Loudon.
The man who could feel thus was worthy of a better station
than that in which his lot had been assigned.
Southey.
He assigned to his men their several posts.
Prescott.
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.
All as the dwarf the way to her assigned.
Spenser.
It is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
De Quincey.
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.
To assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds
the widow's share or portion in an estate. Kent.
As*sign", n. [From Assign,
v.] A thing pertaining or belonging to something
else; an appurtenance. [Obs.]
Six French rapiers and poniards, with their assigns,
as girdles, hangers, and so.
Shak.
As*sign", 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.
AS*sign" (?), 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.
AS*sign" (?), 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.
