Assert and Spell

assert

State categorically.
- synonyms: asseverate, maintain
To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
- usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
- synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
- usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
- synonyms: put forward
Assert to be true.
- usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
- synonyms: insist

(v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
(v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
(v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

spell

A psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation.
- synonyms: enchantment, trance
A time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else. )
- usage: "it's my go"; "a spell of work"
- synonyms: go, tour, turn
A period of indeterminate length (usually short) marked by some action or condition.
- usage: "he was here for a little while"; "I need to rest for a piece"; "a spell of good weather"; "a patch of bad weather"
- synonyms: while, piece, patch
A verbal formula believed to have magical force.
- usage: "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese"
- synonyms: magic spell, magical spell, charm

Orally recite the letters of or give the spelling of.
- usage: "How do you spell this word" "We had to spell out our names for the police officer"
- synonyms: spell out
Indicate or signify.
- usage: "I'm afraid this spells trouble"
- synonyms: import
Write or name the letters that comprise the conventionally accepted form of (a word or part of a word. )
- usage: "He spelled the word wrong in this letter"
- synonyms: write
Relieve (someone) from work by taking a turn.
- usage: "She spelled her husband at the wheel"
Place under a spell.
Take turns working.
- usage: "the workers spell every four hours"

(n.) A story; a tale.
(v.i.) To study by noting characters; to gain knowledge or learn the meaning of anything, by study.
(v.t.) To put under the influence of a spell; to affect by a spell; to bewitch; to fascinate; to charm.
(v.t.) To constitute; to measure.
(n.) A stanza, verse or phrase supposed to be endowed with magical power; an incantation; hence, any charm.
(v.t.) To supply the place of for a time; to take the turn of, at work; to relieve; as, to spell the helmsman.
(v.t.) To tell or name in their proper order letters of, as a word; to write or print in order the letters of, especially the proper letters; to form, as words, by correct orthography.
(v.t.) To discover by characters or marks; to read with difficulty; -- usually with out; as, to spell out the sense of an author; to spell out a verse in the Bible.
(n.) A gratuitous helping forward of another's work; as, a logging spell.
(n.) The relief of one person by another in any piece of work or watching; also, a turn at work which is carried on by one person or gang relieving another; as, a spell at the pumps; a spell at the masthead.
(n.) The time during which one person or gang works until relieved; hence, any relatively short period of time, whether a few hours, days or weeks.
(v.i.) To form words with letters, especially with the proper letters, either orally or in writing.
(n.) A spelk or splinter.
(v.t.) To tell; to relate; to teach.
(n.) One of two or more persons or gangs who work by spells.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary