Assault :: Assault (n.) A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town..

Assault :: Assault (n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government..

Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

Assault :: Assault (n.) To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces..

Assault :: Assault (n.) To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration..

Assaultable :: Assaultable (a.) Capable of being assaulted.

Assaulted :: Assaulted (imp. & p. p.) of Assaul.

Assaulter :: Assaulter (n.) One who assaults, or violently attacks; an assailant..

Assaulting :: Assaulting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Assaul.

Balisaur :: Balisaur (n.) A badgerlike animal of India (Arcionyx collaris).

Brontosaurus :: Brontosaurus (n.) A genus of American jurassic dinosaurs. A length of sixty feet is believed to have been attained by these reptiles.

Camarasaurus :: Camarasaurus (n.) A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae..

Ceratosaurus :: Ceratosaurus (n.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix..

Chrysaurin :: Chrysaurin (n.) An orange-colored dyestuff, of artificial production..

Deinosaur :: Deinosaur (n.) See Dinosaur.

Dinosaur :: Dinosaur (n.) Alt. of Dinosauria.

Dinosauria :: Dinosauria (n. pl.) An order of extinct mesozoic reptiles, mostly of large size (whence the name). Notwithstanding their size, they present birdlike characters in the skeleton, esp. in the pelvis and hind limbs. Some walked on their three-toed hind feet, thus producing the large bird tracks, so-called, of mesozoic sandstones; others were five-toed and quadrupedal. See Illust. of Compsognathus, also Illustration of Dinosaur in Appendix..

Dinosaurian :: Dinosaurian (n.) One of the Dinosauria.

Disaugment :: Disaugment (v. t.) To diminish.

Disauthorize :: Disauthorize (v. t.) To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit.

Elasmosaurus :: Elasmosaurus (n.) An extinct, long-necked, marine, cretaceous reptile from Kansas, allied to Plesiosaurus..

Enaliosaur :: Enaliosaur (n.) One of the Enaliosauria.

Enaliosauria :: Enaliosauria (n. pl.) An extinct group of marine reptiles, embracing both the Ichthyosauria and the Plesiosauria, now regarded as distinct orders..

Enaliosaurian :: Enaliosaurian (a.) Pertaining to the Enaliosauria.

Enaliosaurian :: Enaliosaurian (n.) One of the Enaliosauria.

Eosaurus :: Eosaurus (n.) An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.

Hadrosaurus :: Hadrosaurus (n.) An American herbivorous dinosaur of great size, allied to the iguanodon. It is found in the Cretaceous formation..

Halisauria :: Halisauria (n. pl.) The Enaliosauria.

Hylaeosaur :: Hylaeosaur (n.) Alt. of Hylaeosauru.

Hylaeosaurus :: Hylaeosaurus (n.) A large Wealden dinosaur from the Tilgate Forest, England. It was about twenty feet long, protected by bony plates in the skin, and armed with spines..

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