Note: New spelling because of the th-? If not, assaut is not needed. (If so, the form thassat in the (?a1439) quot. in sense 1.(a) with initial th- should be noted as well, and the form assat removed from form section.)--per MLL

Note: Note that anyway, the form section needs redoing: the list of variant spellings there is not complete. (As one example: asauȝt.)--per MLL

Note: Postdates sense 2.(a).--per SMK

Note: New spelling (Although assault appears in the form section, it is not in any of the quots.)

Note: Probably belongs to sense 1.(c).--notes per MLL

Note: Ed.: "assautis n. pl. 'assaults, ambushes'."

Note: Editor's note: "thei bien assautis: insidiati sunt 'they lie in wait.' Wise men "lie in wait" for animals, to discover their healing secrets by observation or "experimental science." The translator of the ME Letter of Alexander to Aristotle, whose work was copied by the Hammond scribe in Worcester Cathedral Library F.172, also renders the "insidi-" root with the word assautis, in describing a trap or ambush into which Alexander's army is led..The MED records no uses of assaut with the sense of lying in wait for or ambushing one's tartet; the senses of the word are limited to overt attacks as with ModE assault."

Note: New sense.