[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

assign \assign"\, 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.
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            in the order i assign to them.        --loudon.
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            the man who could feel thus was worthy of a better
            station than that in which his lot had been
            assigned.                             --southey.
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            he assigned to his men their several posts.
                                                  --prescott.
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   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.
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            all as the dwarf the way to her assigned. --spenser.
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            it is not easy to assign a period more eventful.
                                                  --de quincey.
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   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.
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   to assign dower, to set out by metes and bounds the widow's
      share or portion in an estate. --kent.
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see also:
assigned assigning sign to assign dower 

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