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 ]

v. t. To assign wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To assign back or again; to transfer back what has been assigned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of reassigning. [ 1913 Webster ]