Assessor

1. v. One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.
2. v. One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.
3. v. One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.