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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Assign \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. [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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Assign \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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Assign \As*sign"\, 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Assign \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. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: assign v 1: give an assignment to (a person) to a post, or assign a task to (a person) [syn: {delegate}, {designate}, {depute}, {assign}] 2: give out; "We were assigned new uniforms" [syn: {assign}, {allot}, {portion}] 3: attribute or credit to; "We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare"; "People impute great cleverness to cats" [syn: {impute}, {ascribe}, {assign}, {attribute}] 4: select something or someone for a specific purpose; "The teacher assigned him to lead his classmates in the exercise" [syn: {assign}, {specify}, {set apart}] 5: attribute or give; "She put too much emphasis on her the last statement"; "He put all his efforts into this job"; "The teacher put an interesting twist to the interpretation of the story" [syn: {put}, {assign}] 6: make undue claims to having [syn: {arrogate}, {assign}] 7: transfer one's right to 8: decide as to where something belongs in a scheme; "The biologist assigned the mushroom to the proper class" [syn: {assign}, {attribute}]