Available Definitions:
1) v. t. - To appoint; to allot; to apportion; to make over.
2) v. t. - 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.
3) v. t. - To transfer, or make over to another, esp. to transfer to, and vest in, certain persons, called assignees, for the benefit of creditors.
4) v. - A thing pertaining or belonging to something else; an appurtenance.
5) n. - A person to whom property or an interest is transferred; as, a deed to a man and his heirs and assigns.