Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) An allotting or an appointment to a particular person or use; or for a particular time, as of a cause or causes in court. 2. (n.) 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. 3. (n.) The writing by which an interest is transferred. 4. (n.) The transfer of the property of a bankrupt to certain persons called assignees, in whom it is vested for the benefit of creditors.

Multi-Version Concordance Assignment (1 Occurrence) 1 Chronicles 23:11 Jahath was the chief, and Zizah the second: but Jeush and Beriah didn't have many sons; therefore they became a fathers' house in one reckoning. (See NIV)