Assienʹto Treaties. [Spanish, agreement treaties.]

Contracts entered into by Spain with Portugal, France, and England, to supply her South American colonies with negro slaves. England joined in 1713, after the peace of Utrecht.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Aspnaltic Lake
Asrael
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Ass
Ass’s Bridge (The)
Asses (Feast of)
Ass-eared
Assassins
Assay
Assaye Regiment
Assiento Treaties. [Spanish, agreement treaties.]
Assinego
Assumption (Feast of the)
Assurance
Astagoras (in Jerusalem Delivered)
Astarte
Astarte
Astolat
Astolpho (in Orlando Furioso)
Astoreth
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